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this  will  clearly  be  harder  if 
an  Iraqi  withdrawal  is 
confirmed! 

France,  which  helps  the  US 
and  Britain  police  the. north.-- 
em  Iraqi  J*no41y  zone”  but 
has  been  keen  to  restore  nor- 
mal relations  with  Baghdad, 
declined  all  comment  relating 
to  possible  military  action  in 
the  region. 

Jordan  said  publicly  it 
would  not  authorise  die  use  of 
its  Azrak  airbase  for  US  air 
strikes,  hi  Amman,  King  Hus- 
sein told  Gen  ShalUcashvHi 
that  outside  parties  should 
not  intervene  in  Iraq’s  affairs. 

Turkey,  a Nato  ally  now  led 
by  an  Islamist  prime  minis- 
ter, said  the  US  had  yet  to  ask 
its  permission  to  use  the  In- 
ch-ilk airbase  for  anything 
but  reconnaissance.  Ankara 
asked  the  UN  not  to  delay  im- 
plementation of  the  fbod-for- 


Hussein.  It  is  not  because  of 
Kurdish  rivalry  that  he  has 
seat  tanks  to  die  area.  His  ob- 
jective is  to  re-establish  his 
control  over  all  of  the  Kurd-, 
ish  area  and  to  try  to  regain 
control  of  northern  Iraq. ' 

"If  he  regained  control  of 
all  'of  ' Iraq  be  could  contem- 
plate a renewal  of  aggression. 
It  is  dearly  a grave  violation 
of  the  safety  area,  the  safe 
zone,  and  I believe  there  can 
be  no  justification  for  action 
of  this  kind." 

Denying  reports  of  an  Iraqi 
pullback,  the  Iraqi. National 
Congress,  an  umbrella  opposi- 
tion organisation,  said  there 
were  still  more  than  270  tanks 
in  the  Irhil  area  and  that  the 
Iraqi  flag  was  flying  over  all 
buildings  of  the  Kurdish 
regional  government. 

"Iraqi  troops  have  commlt- 


apparently  escaped  to  Sulay 
»r 

reported  to  have  been  de- 
tained by  the  KDP. 

In  London,  Ahmed  Chalabi. 
president  of  die  INC  execu- 
tive council,  said  punitive 
action  was  not  enough.  He 
called  for  the  extension  of  the 
northern  nofly  zone  to  the 
whole  of  Iraq,  restricting  the 
movement  of  armoured  units 
to  around  Baghdad,  and  a UN 
commission  to  determine 
whether  Saddam  Hussein  is 
guilty  of  war  crimes.  - 

He  railed  an  the  interna- 
tional community  to  take  im- 
mediate action  over  INC 
members  arrested  by  the 
Iraqi  secret  service. 

- In  Washington  Mr  Clinton 
faced  strong  doemstic  pres- 
sure "to  show  resolve"  and 
punish  Iraq,  as  the  Republi- 
cans widened  their  accusa- 
tions of  his  "failures  of  lead- 
ership". But  his  presidential 
rival  Bob  Dole  did  not  men- 
tion Iraq  in  his  rally  at  St 
Louis,  Missouri,  yesterday, 
after  a White  House  spokes- 
men complained  be  was 
breaching  the  tradition  that 
die  US  "speaks  with  one  com- 
mon voice”  during  a crisis. 


Comments  from  Britain,  reduce  Iranian  influence, 
with  aircraft  and  ships  in  the  Malcolm  Rifkind,  die  For- 
area,  were  gung-ho  but  nebu-  elgn  Secretary,  said  during  a 
The  heart  of  Scottish  hero  Robert  the  Bruce  made  a veiled  appearance  In  a laboratory  yesterday,  where  its  shroud  was  inus,  suggesting  John  Major  visit  to  Tokyo:  "I  don’t  think  i 
inspected  by  head  of  conservation  at  Historic  Scotland,  Richard  Welander  Full  story,  page  2 photograph-  muroo  macleoo  would  go  along  with  whatever  the  world  should  be  fooled  by 

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Van  driver  wins 
case  over  time 
off  for  birth 


Stuart  Millar 

ALL  Robert  Stennings 
wanted  was  some  time 
off  for  the  birth  of  his 
child  But  when  the  32-year- 
old  van  driver  decided  to  put 
the  delivery  or  his  daughter 
before  that  of  central  heating 
supplies,  his  boss  told  him  not 
to  bother  coming  back 
An  Industrial  tribunal  in 
Manchester  yesterday 
awarded  Mr  Stennings  El  .735 
after  ruling  that  he  had  been 
unfairly  dismissed  by  Supa 

HenL  The  tribunal  heard  that 
Michael  Johnson,  owner  of 
the  three-man  company,  had 
forbidden  Mr  Stennings  to  be 
at  his  wife's  side  unless  he 
could  give  a date  for  the  birth. 

Mr  Stennings,  who  had 
worked  for  the  company  for 
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expect  time  off  for  hospital 
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birth  to  their  daughter  Char- 
lotte in  March. 

Mr  Stennings  said:  “He  said 
a pilot  or  a ship's  captain 
would  not  be  able  to  turn 
back  on  a flight  or  a cruise 
because  of  a birth.  “He  said  , 
he  would  sack  me  ...  I broke  i 
down  crying  and  said  my  wife 
was  in  hospital  and  I appealed 
to  him.  saying  I wanted  to  be 
with  her.” 


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Britain  will  press 
ahead  with  tha 
E40  billion 
Euroflghter  project. 
The  move  is  expected 
to  secure  up  to 
14.000  jobs. 


Robert  Stennings ...  ‘A  man 
should  be  at  his  wife's  ride* 

The  tribunal  decided  Mr 
Johnson  had  acted  unreason- 
ably, but  held  Mr  Stennings 
was  50  per  cent  to  blame  be- 
cause he  had  said  he  was  go- 
ing to  take  time  off,  rather 
than  making  a request 

Earlier.  Mr  Johnson  told 
the  tribunal:  “My  company 
won’t  revolve  around  the 
birth  of  a child  and  I don’t 
think  that  la  unreasonable 
...  My  wife  spent  26  hours  in 
labour  with  our  first  child. 


Did  Mr  Stennings  want  to 
take,  God  forbid,  a day  and  a 
half  off?” 

After  the  ruling,  Mr  Sten- 
nings, now  a packer  with  a 
biscuit  firm,  said:  “I  would  do 
the  same  again.  A man  should 
always  be  at  his  wife’s  side." 

But  Mr  Johnson  said:  “I  ap- 
preciate it  was  a very  special 
occasion  for  Mr  Stennings  but 
he  should  have  more  respect 
1 for  my  company  and  its  cus- 
: tuners.  It  is  another  nail  in  the 
coffin  of  small  businessmen." 

Under  European  Union. law, 
fathers  In  other  member 
states  are  entitled  to  a mini- 
mum of  three-  months  off 
work  without  pay.  But  Brit- 
ain’s opt-out  of  the  Social 
Chapter  denies  British 
fathers  this  right 

A spokesman  for  Parents  at 
Work  said:  "This  case  only 
strengthens  calls  for . pater- 
nity leave  to  be  made  a statu- 
tory right.” 

Many  employers,  do  allow 
time  off,  but  rights  vary  enor- 
mously. Fathers  working  for 
the  Labour  Party  are  entitled 
to  four  weeks'  paid  leave,  an- 
other organisation  only  offers 
two  days,  barring  exceptional 
circumstances.  Its  name:  the 
Child  Support  Agency. 


TENS  of  thousands  of 
investors  were  left  in 
limbo  yesterday  after  one  of 
the  City's  most  prestigious 
money  management  compa- 
nies, Morgan  Grenfell  Asset 
Management,  suspended  deal- 
ings In  three  of  its  most  suc- 
cessful investment  funds  and  | 
announced  it  was  investigat- 
ing “possible  irregularities". 

Dealings  in  three  unit 
trusts  — the  MG  European 
Growth  Trust  the  MG  Euro- 
pean Capital  Growth  Fund 
and  the  MG  Europa  Fund, 
which  have  attracted  more 
than  £1.4  billion  of  Investors’ 
money  — were  stopped  indefi- 
nitely after  the  institution 
suspended  one  of  its  top  fund 
managers,  Peter  Young. 

Mr  Young  has  received 
widespread  praise  for  the  suc- 
cess of  investments  under  his 

control  since  he  joined  Mor- 
gan Grenfell  four  years  ago. 
CcJlaagues  said  he  cleared  his 
deik  on  Friday.  There  was  no 
answer  at*  his  Buckingham- 
shire home  last  night 

Morgan  Grenfell  which  is 
owned  by  Germany’s  Deut- 
sche Batik  and  manages  in- 


vestments worth  £70  billion 
worldwide,  is  carrying  out  an 
internal  investigation  and 
has  contacted  Imro,  the  City 
watchdog  which  monitors  the 
fund  Tnjmagpmftnt  industry. 

The  three  funds  are  all  unit 
trusts  specialising  in  Euro- 
pean stocks.  Many  private  in- 
vestors have  pensions  or  rav- 
ings invested  in  the  biggest, 
the  £778  million  European 
Growth  Trust,  which  trades 
on  the  Irish  Stock  Exchange. 

Imro  last  wight  confirmed  it 
hag  also  launched  an  investi- 
gation.into  the  irregularities 
at  the  Institution. 

Disclosure  of  the  Investiga- 
tions, believed  to  be  m their 
early  stages,  comes  days  after 
blue-chip  investment  house 
Jardlne  Flemings  was  fined 
£400,000  by  Imro  and  forced  to 
pay  £12  million  coropensatiesa 
to  investors.  Jardine  found  a 
former  fond  manager  had 
cheated  clients  by  pocketing 

profits.  . - 

Mr  Young,  who  previously 
worked  for  City  institutions 
Mercury  Asset  Management 
and  Equity  & Law  was  well- 
turn  to  page  2,  column  6 

Trusts  frozen  and  C#ty  .... 
Notebook, p—s  44 


Israel  is  under.  ; 
pressure  to  make  . 
concessions  to  the 
PLOwith  the  aim  •" 
of  preventing  the 
unravelling  of  the 
1993  peace  accord. 


The  Government  has 
allowed  bidders  for  . 
the  new  private  rail 
franchises  to  see 
confidential  data  on 
British  Rail  pension 
fund  surpluses.' 


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Patriots  rally  for 
oysters  and  beer 


John  Duncan 


IF  THE  oyster  Is  your  world 
then  Harrods  yesterday  was 
your  cup  of  chilled  cham- 
pagne as  the  oysterati  gath- 
ered for  the  blue  riband  event 
of  the  seafood  Olympics,  the 
Oyster  Opening  Champion- 
ship. 

Well,  actually,  this  was  just 
the  British  end  of  things.  The 
winner  yesterday  out  of  the 
eight  carefully  selected  con- 
testants from  London's  better 
restaurants  would  be  entitled 
to  travel  to  Galway  at  the  end 
of  this  month  for  the  world 
championships,  long 
renowned  as  one  of  the  sea- 
food world's  greatest  piss-ups, 

a boisterous  and  oysterous  cel- 
ebration, three  days  of  oysters 
and  Guinness  attended  by 
about  2,000  people. 

“1  thought  1 would  pop  down 
one  year,"  said  an  eminent 
sports  writer  who.  to  protect 
the  guilty,  did  not  want  to  be 
named,  "and  all  I remember  is 
waking  up  on  a pub  floor  the 
day  after  the  final  surrounded 

by  comatose  waiters  and  oys- 
ter people."  The  copy  got 
through,  but  the  punctuation 
was  pickled 

The  technical  term  for  the 
oyster  boys  is  in  fact  a shucker 
and  the  new  British  champion 
is  Armando  Lema,  originally 
from  Galicia  butnowa 
mother  of  a shucker  at  Green’s 
restaurant 

‘Tve  won  it  four  times  be- 
fore," said  Mr  Lema,  whose 
winning  feat  was  to  open  30 
oysters  in  8min36sec.  "but  1 
can't  wait  to  get  to  Gal- 
way. I would  recommend  it  to 
anyone.  There’s  oysters  and 
music  and  great  people  and 
Guinness,  which  is  possibly 
why  I haven't  won  [the  world 
title]  in  the  past  The  Guin- 
ness is  too  good. 

"A  lot  of  the  others  arrive 
there  with  knives  that  make 
you  think  they  have  come  to 
skin  cows.  They  really  take  it 
seriously." 

So  did  yesterday's  organis- 
ers, Tabasco.  They  had  sup- 
plied fresh  Irish  oysters  gath- 


ered that  morning  and  flown 
in  from  Rossmore.  A set  of 
judges  waited  in  a locked 
room  to  study  the  plates  to  en- 
sure that  corners  hadnot  been 
cut  and  that  the  proper  rules  of 
presentation  of  flesh  were  ad- 
hered to. 

Mr  Lama’s  best  time,  2min 
Slsec,  is  within  shucking  dis- 
tance of  the  usual  winning 
time  and  he  travels  with  the 
high  hopes  of  a nation. 

Well,  of  Buckinghamshire, 
anyway.  That  is  where  British 
oyster  opening's  official  fans 
are  basal,  with  the  Sid  and 
Doris  Bonkers  role  played  by 
Graham  Young  and  Tony 
Syroes,  near  neighbours  from 
Iver  who  founded  their  club, 
The  Rabble,  in  Galway  after  a 
few  pints  during  their  first 
visit  to  the  worlds. 

No  crusty  crustacean  fetish- 
ists these.  "The  French,  Ital- 
ians, Australians  were' all 
there  and  they  had  flags,  ’’  said 
Mr  Young.  “So  we  decided 
that  we  would  get  organised. 
Thera  will  be  abo  ut  25  of  us 
there  this  September.” 

Their  supporters  dub. 
called  The  Rabble,  has  T-. 
shirts,  a slogan  in  French  and 
English , and  even  anewslet- 
ter,  the  catchy  Bi- Valve  Bugje. 

to  feet  this  has  been  a busy 
couple  of  days  tor  competitive 
foodies. 

“You  should  have  been  at 
Hays  Galeria  yesterday,”  said 
David  C Butcher,  the  superin- 
tendent of  Billingsgate  Mar- 
ket, who  was  a timekeeper 
yesterday.  “We  had  the  com- 
petitions for  fish  filleting  and 
poultry  gutting.  There  were  a 
< couple  of  hundred  trade  there 
and  even  the  public  were  find- 
ing themselves  glued  to  it 
“The  theatre  of  food  is  so 
important  What  we  have  to 
get  rid  of  is  this  idea  of  food  as 
something  pre-packaged  and 
empty.” 

It  had  been  a hard  day  for 
the  foodie  bandwagon,  which 
had  trundled  to  Harrods  from 
the  launch  of  Carlton  televi- 
sion’s Food  Channel  earlier 
that  day.  “Mmmmhoware 
you,  daahling?  Ware  you  at 
Carlton?”  asked  one  restaura- 
teur. stripe  shirt,  blazer,  red 
handkerchief  in  pocket 
‘‘Miwmm,  lovely  brooch,  let 
me  have  a closer  look. 
Gaawwwwjus.  See  you  later." 
“So  who  was  he,  then?” 

"No  idea,  daahltng.  He  only 
wanted  a gawp  at  the  cleavage, 
the  old  luv.  Only  thing  worth 
looking  at  down  there.  Ha,-ha, 
ha.  More  champagne?" 


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Derby’s  new  children's  hospital,  designed  in  consultation  with  parents  and  children  to  suggest  fun  rather  than  pain,  may  toll  victim  to  spending  cuts 


PHOTOGRAPHS:  Don  McPHS 


This  is  the  first 
children’s 
hospital  built 
in  Britain 
this  century. 

It  cost  the  NHS 
£15  million. 
Soon  it  may 
have  to  close. 


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Review 


Feel  good,  and 
that’s  an  order 


Stuart  Jeffries 


The  Big  Breafcfest/Daytime 
televUrton— thenewrseaaor 


THE  Big  Breakfast  (C4) 
has  had  an  Image 
rethink.  Thankfully 
they’ve  kept  the  intellectual 
core — Zigand  Zag.  puppets 
with  expressive  feces  and 
dayglo  pom-poms  for  anten- 
nae. But  gone  are  the  Vic- 
torian lock  keepers’ cottages 
in  which  the  show  used  to  be 
filmed,  replaced  by  a sub-Le 
Corbusier  conversion  — 
bland,  blonde,  sunny,  with 
long,  cool  lines.  Just  like  Shar- 
ron  Davies,  but  probably 
cheaper. 

Davies,  hired  at  £500,000  to 
fill  Zoe  Ball’s  shoes,  was  our 
guide.  She  showed  us  around 
the  house  — kitchen,  living 
room,  and,  unexpectedly,  a 
library  (books  shelved  accord- 
ing to  spine  colours). 

And  now  the  news:  Kim 
Wilde  is  starting  her  first  day 
as  a married  woman!  She’s 
vowed  to  swap  showbiz  for 
motherhood,  but  promises  to 
be  back  on  stage  by  Friday! 

And  now  over  to  the  telly- 
copter.  Where  are  you  Denise? 
“Newcastle!”  shouted  Denise, 
3S  though  it  was  one  of  Sat- 
urn’s moons.  If  only  they  had 
turned  off  the  engine  for  a 
minute,  we  could  have  heard 
her  side  of  the  conversation. 

After  that  exchange,  it  was 
back  to  the  studio,  where 
Davies  played  sidekick  to 
Rick  Adams,  former  host  of 
some  ITV  kids’  show.  He  was 
very,  very  excited,  and  why 
not?  At  nine  o’clock  he  had  to 
starta  new  school  term.  "Were 
you  in  Planet  OTThe  Apes?” 
he  asked  showbiz  guest  Andie 
MacDoweLL  “No,  of  course, 


that  was  Roddy  McDowalL'” 
Didn’t  be  have  some  home- 
work to  finish? 

Poor  Andie.  She  had  to  - 
dance  with  Ride,  Sharron  and 
Vanessa  Feltz.  Rick  put  his 
arms  round  her,  and  she 
smiled  the  smile  which  said: 
“Your  lawyers!  My  lawyers!  In 
the  kitchen!  Now!”  Then  she 
joined  Vanessa  on  hideously 
upholstered  chaises  longues. 
“You  look  60  much  like  your- 
self! You  look  brilliant!" 
bawled  Vanessa. 

And  now  the  tellycopter. 
“Good  morning!  Tm  hovering 
over  Newcastle!"  Noel  Gal- 
lagher then  gave  an  exclusive 
interview.  "We  Just  want 
people  to  have  a good  time, 
you  know!  Forget  what's  on 
the  telly,  forget  Bosnia,  you 
know!"  Noel,  baby,  when 
Rick's  at  school  would  you, 
you  know,  fill  in?  You’re  just 
the  guy  for  the  job! 

Richard  and  Judy  have 
swapped  Liverpool’s  Albert 
Dock  tor  a Thames-side  studio 
j and  very  lemony  upholstery 
for  the  new  season  of  This 
Morning  (ITV). 

Their  first  guest  was  Rac- 
quel,  who's  leaving  Corona- 
tion Street  to  make  a “feel- 
good, family  drama"  about 
district  nurses.  Which  is 
really  great! 

BBCi ’s  new-Iook  daytime 
schedule,  which  replaced 
Anne  and  Nick  with  an  intel- 
lectually insulting,  consumer- 
1st  nightmare,  also  relent- 
lessly upbeat  as  though  its  aim 
was  to  compensate  for  a 
national  shortage  of  tranquil- 
lisers. John  Leslie  introduced 
Style  Challenge  with:  “The 
show  with  the  feelgood,  ami 
definitely,  the  lookgood 
fector.” 

Feel  good — the  lascistic 
injunction  of  daytime  TV. 


David  Ward 

Liam  barry,  aged 
seven,  flew  in  by  heli- 
copter yesterday  to  de- 
clare open  Derby's  new  £17 
million  children's  hospital  — 
which  could  be  closed  by  the 
local  health  authority  in 
November. 

Health  officials,  proud  to  be 
involved  with  the  first  chil- 
dren's hospital  built  in  Brit- 
ain this  century,  tried  to  pre- 
vent gloom  from  clouding  the 
celebrations. 

"We  at  the  Derby  City  Gen- 
eral Hospital  NHS  Trust  are 
confident  that  full  use  will  be 
made  of  tbe  new  hospital,  and 
we  are  totally  optimistic 
about  its  future,"  said  Nor- 
man Woods,  the  trust's 
chairman. 

But  that  future  is  uncertain 
as  the  South  Derbyshire 
Health  Authority  reviews 


acute  services  in  local  hospi- 
tals and  tries  to  decide  how  to 
cut  costs  and  end  duplication. 
South  Derbyshire  Health  Au- 
thority is  concerned  that  it  is 
spending  £5  million  more 
each  year  on  acute  hospital 
, services  than  other  authori- 
ties in  the  Trent  region,  and 
is  getting  less  activity  for  its 
money. 

It  has  proposed  four  options 
for  public  consultation  to  tty  , 
to  end  duplication  of  services  I 
by  Derby  City  General  (site  of 
the  new  children's  hospital) 
and  Derby  Royal  Infirmary. 

The  first  would  be  to  retain 
both  sites,  with  some  "down- 
sizing"; the  second  and  third 
would  centralise  services  at 
one  of  the  present  sites;  the 
fourth  would  be  to  build  a 
new  hospital  on  a greenfield 
site. 

Brian  Blissett,  the  health 
authority's  chief  executive, 
described  the  last  as  unlikely. 


APART  from  Derby,  new 
children's  hospitals  are 
planned  In  Birmingham, 
and  Bristol  In  what  looks 
like  a frenzy  of  building 
work  compared  with  the 
Inactivity  of  the  past  100 
years,  writes  David  Brindlt 
However,  experts  say  this 
I does  not  signal  a return  to 
the  fashion  for  free-stand- 
ing children’s  hospitals. 
The  reasons  no  others  have 
been  built  for  a century  In 
England  will  continue  to 
dictate  policy. 

Most  children’s  hospitals 
were  built  by  the  Victorians 
through  philanthropy  and 
public  subscription.  Typi- 
cally, Derby's  started  as  a 
six.-hed  unit  in  a converted 
house  and  was  expanded  six 
years  later  Into  the  hospital 
that  served  the  city  for 
more  than  100  years. 

The  vogue  for  children’s 
hospitals  receded  as  doc- 
tors realised  they  needed 
close  access  to. the  special- 
ist skills  and  equipment  in 


district  general  hospitals 
(DGHs).  At  the  same  time, 
the  number  of  children 
admitted  as  in-patients  was 
falling.  Operations  such  as 
tonsils  removal  are  far  less 
common.  Surgery  -.'is 
increasingly  performed  as 
a day  case. 

Keith  Dodd,  honorary 
secretary  of  the  College,  of 
Paediatrics  and  Child 
Health,  said  that  while  the 
new  hospital  In  Derby 
remained  self-contained,  it 
was  moving  to  the  general 
hospital  site.  “We  have 
super  facilities,  but  we  also 
have  the  back-up  of  a DGH 
— the  surgeons,  anaesthe- 
tists, all  the  support  ser- 
vices on  one  site." 

..  Except. the  very  large 
children's  hospitals  such  as 
Great  Ormond  Street  in 
1 London,  and  Alder  Hey  in 
Liverpool,  the  fixture  for 
the  remainder  will  increas- 
ingly be  as  departments 
within,  or  alongside,  large 
general  units.  ' _ ..  - 


mtmx 


Liam  and  James  Barry,  stars  of  the  opening  ceremony 


but  agreed  that  tbe  new  hospi- 
tal was  threatened  by  one  of  i 
tbe  remaining  options. 

"Of  course  the  health  au- 
thority and  the  trusts  will  | 
want  to  ensure  that  they 
retain,  where  possible,  new 
developments  ou  both  sites. 
But  the  authority  has  to  take 
a long-term  view,”  Mr  Blissett 
said. 

Liam,  a regular  patient 
since  birth  at  the  old  Vic- 


torian children's  hospital  two 
miles  away,  did  not  let  this 
prospect  spoil  his  big  day  as 
he  drove  a model  car  through 
a paper  barrier  into  the  col- 
ourful entrance  ball  of  its 
replacement  where  a foun- 
tain plays  near  the  reception 
desk. 

Like  those  in  Ladybird,  Puf- 
fin and  Sunflower  wards,  the 
desk  is  child-high,  enabling 
young  patients  to  see  what  is 


going  on.  Parents  and  chil- 
dren were  interviewed  as  part 
of  the  design  process  and; 
have  been  rewarded  with 
swirling  floors,  varied  ceil- 
ings and  two  Loch  Ness 
monsters. 

The  NHS  gave  £15  million 
but  tbe  people  of  Derby, 
through  the  Kite  Appeal, 
chipped  in  £15  million  to  pro- 
vide specialist  equipment  and 
create  an  environment  which 
suggests  fun  rather  than  pain. 

Every  ward  entrance  has  a 
play  area  with  books  and 
toys;  curtains  round  the  72 
beds  are  vibrant:  one  waiting 
area  is  in  the  form  of  a boat 
anda  mural  in  Ladybird  ward 
shows  a garden  scene  with 
smiling  bears,  ducks  and  tor- 
toises plus  an  infinite  number 
of  ladybirds. 

“This  is  a beautiful  place,” 
said  Rhlannon  Gray,  mother 
of  15-month-old  Jordan,  who 
was  exploring  the  carpets  of 


the  new  building.  He  was 
brought  , in  with  a arm  at  the 
old  hospital  on  Sunday,  the 
day  it  closed  after  lag  years  of 
service. 

“it's  a bit  like  a fairy  tale," 
said  Chris  Nelson,  a consul- 
tant paediatrician  with  seven 
dwarfs  on  his  tie.  “I  have 
never  come  across  anything 
like  this.  My  colleagues’  jaws 
drop  when:  they  see  it  It  Iras 
been  designed  for  its  purpose 
rather  than  shoehoroed  into 
anexistinghuilding.” 

Parents  can  remain  with 
their  children  during  their 
hospital  stay,  sleeping  by 
their  side  on  fold-down  chairs 
or  in  separate  bedrooms.  The 
I oncology  suite  has  three  self- 
contained  flatlets-  where 
parents  can  .live  with  their 
children  for  several  weeks. 
The  adolescent  unit  Iras  its 
Own.  games  room,  and  ter- 
races and  courtyards,  offer 
fresh  air. 


Robert  the  Bruce’s  heart 
surrenders  to  hacksaws 


Leading  City  firm  probes  ‘irregularities’ 


Grampian  police  force  announces 
new  policy  to  test  staff  for  drugs 


Dtaiean  Campbell 
Crime  Correspondent 

POLICE  officers  will  face 
random  drug  tests  for  the 
first  time  in  Britain,  under  a 
policy  announced  yesterday 
by  Grampian  Police. 

All  recruits  to  the  Gram- 
pian force  will  have  to  take  a 
test  before  being  accepted, 
and  from  later  this  year  one 


in  10  of  the  force's  1,100  offi- 
cers and  500  civilian  staff  will 
be  picked  out  at  random  once 
a year.  And  any  officer  or 
staff  member  whose  perfor- 
mance at  work  indicates  he  or 
she  might  he  abusing  drugs  or 
drink  will  be  tested.  Medical 
officers  will  teat  for  illegal 
drugs  such  as  amphetamines, 
cannabis  (which  remains  in 
the  system  for  up  to  a month) 
i and  cocaine. 


Erlend  Clouston 

PATRIOTIC  pulses  beat 
a little  fester  in  Scot- 
land yesterday  as  the 
vital  organ  of  a national 
hero  made  a veiled  appear- 
ance on  a laboratory  table. 

Under  the  glare  of  televi- 
sion spotlights,  the  heart  of 
Robert  the  Bruce,  which ! 
spent  much  of  the  early  i 

l!*?,  tc*ntur?  eluding 
English  broadswords,  sur- 
rendered tamely  to  the 
respectful  hacksaws  of  His- 
toric Scotland  conservators. 

. The  160-minute  opera- 
tion, witnessed  anxiously 
by  the  Chief  Inspector  of 
Ancient  Monuments,  fol- 
lowed last  week’s  discovery 
at  Melrose  Abbey  of  a 
heart-sized  container. 

Aa  Bruce.  Scotland’s 

inunarch  from  1306  to  1329, 
is  the  only  man  known  to 
have  been  granted  a coro- 
nary  crypt  at  the  12th  cen- 
tury abbey,  the  assumption 
is  that  the  battered  off- 
hrown  canister  belongs  to 
turn. 

Good  taste  and  hygiene 
restrained  Historic  Scot- 
land staff  from  penetrating 
the  leaden  shroud  in  which 
the  lump  of  mummified 
muscle  Is  encased. 

The  victor  of  Bannock- 
burn died  from  leprosy,  or 
possibly  syphilis,  so  the  ar- 
chaeo-carpenters  donned 
overalls,  gloves  and  face 
masks  to  extract  what 
looked  like  a I2in  high  me- 
«evai  traffic  cone  from  the 


Robert  the  Bruce . . . not 
fltely  to  face  DNA  tests 

official  biscuit  tin  in  which 
an  earlier  excavation  team 
had  rehoused  the  relic  in 
1921. 

There  was  momentary  ex- 
citement when  the  initial 
fibrescope  examination 
revealed  the  presence  of  a 
folded  piece  of  white  parch- 
ment Hopes  that  this  might 
he  a message  from  beyond 
the  grave,  or  even  a trea- 
sure hunt  clue,  were 
dashed  when  it  turned  out 
to  contain  a copper  willing 
card  from  the  Ministry  of 
Works. 

The  half-expected  re-dis- 


covery has  been  a mixed 
blessing  for  Historic  Scot- 
land's excavators.  Ou  top  of 
overshadowing  more  ar- 
chaeology caUy -significant 
work  at  the  abbey,  it  has 
made  the  government  de- 
partment sensitive  to  poss- 
ible charges  of  grave-rob- 
bing. Offlcals  stressed 
yesterday  that  there  would 
be  no  attempt  to  clone  a 
new  King  Robert  from  DNA 
scrapings  and  that  the 
heart  would  be  re-buried 
decorously  at  Melrose  in 
the  spring. 

A n on-metallic  coffin  Is 
likely  so  that,  in  the  words 
of  the  Historic  Scotland 
spokesman,  “no  one  with  a 
metal  detector  or  spade  can 
dig  it  up”. 

The  heart  has  had  an  ex- 1 
citing  history.  After  help- 1 
ing  expel  the  English  from 
Scotland,  it  was,  at  its  late 
owner’s  request,  carried 
into  battle  against  the  Sara- 
cens by  Lord  James  Doug- 
las. The  14th  century  histo- 
rian, John  Barbour, 
records  how  the  crusader 
hurled  his  royal  trophy  at 
the  heathen  with  the 
words:  ’‘Now  pass  thou 
forth  in  front  as  thou  wast 
.wont  to  do  In  battle,  and  I 
shall  follow,  or  else  die.” 

When  Douglas  did  die, 
cut  off  by  the  Saracens 
after  going  to  the  rescue  of 
Sir  William  de  St  Clair,  the 
heart  was  brought  back  to 
Melrose-  by  a Scottish 
knight  whose  broken  arm 
had  forced  him  miss  the 
battle. 


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known  as  an  investment 
I “risk-taker”,  with  a penchant 
for  shares  in  high  technology 
companies.  Friends  said  he 
j had  been  under  intense  per- 
sonal pressure  recently. 

The  suspended  funds  were 
heavy  investors  in  the  UK’s 
leading  biotechnology  drug 
company.  British  Biotechnol- 
ogy, and  the  Scandinavian 
telephones  group,  Nokia. 
However,  the  possible  irregu- 
larities are  said  to  involve  , 
investments  ■ in  private  com- 
panies, unquoted  on  any  lead- 1 
ing  stock  market  | 

Morgan  Grenfell  Asset 


Management  said  the  investi- 
gation will  focus  on  unquoted 
.stocks  held  by  the  portfolios 
of  all  three  funds.  It  is  under- 
stood no  more  than  10  per 
cent  of  (he  total  value  of  the 
funds  is  at  risk,  and  the  com- 
pany has  pledged  to  compen- 
sate investors  for  any  losses. 

A spokesman  said  it  was 
not  possible  to  say  how  long 
tbe  investigation  would  take 
or  when  in  the  three 

unit  trusts  might  be  resumed. 
In  the  meantime,  investors 
will  be  unable  to  liquidate 
their  investments.  -However, 
“any  liabilities  will  be  met  by 
the  group". 


Peter  Young . . ..  praised 
for  success  of  investments 


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NEWS  3 


As  veterans  of 
the  1960s 
Bolivian 
rebellion 
accuse  their 
former  friend 
Fidel  Castro 
of  betraying 
the  guerrilla 
hero,  Cuba 
and  Che’s 
daughter  are 
hitting  back 


Paul  Webster  on 
a Latin  skirmish 


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N OFFICIAL  cover- 
op  of  BSE  scandal 
iby  the  European 
fcCornrnlrsston  emerged 
in  Brussels  yesterday,  over- 
shadowing the  start  Ctf  an  in- 
quiry by  the  European  Parlia- 
ment into  the  handling  of  this 
year’s  beef  panic. 

Documents  disclosed  by  fee 
French  newspaper  Liberation 
show  that  senior  .commission 


R4gfe  Debray  (top  left),  and  Aleida  Guevara  standing  in  front  of  the  famous  image  of  her  father,  Che 


MMN  PHOTOGRAPH:  NKHOLAS  BEYNARD 


Old  comrades  trade  insults  over  Che 


Regis  debray  and 

Dariel  Alarcon 
Ramirez,  two  rare 
survivors  of  Che  Gue- 
vara's 1960s  Bolivian  rebel- 
lion. have  publicly  turned 
against  their  former  Cuban 
backer  and  friend  Fidel  Cas- 
tro. opening  up  28-year-old 
wounds  with  accusations  of 
treachery  by  Havana. 

Cuba  has  In  turn  accused 
Mr  Debray,  who  was  jailed 
and  tortured  by  the  Bolivian 
army,  of  betraying  Che.  It  has 
also  denounced  him  as  a 
“traitor"  for  encouraging  an 
exiled  Cuban  resistance 
movement  of  which  Mr  Ra- 
mirez — better  known  as  Ben- 
igno  — is  a leader. 

Havana’s  condemnation 
came  alter  the  two  men  pub- 
lished books  describing  Dr 
Castro's  regime  as  Stalinist 
and  claiming  that  he  had 
abandoned  the  rebels  to  their 
fate  in  1967. 

Mr  Debray  opened  the  war 
of  vords  with  his  book  Praise 
be  Our  Lords.  This  has  now 
been  followed  by  Mr  Ramir- 
ez’s volume.  The  Life  and 
Death  of  the  Cuban  Revolu- 
tion, written  from  his  refuge 
in  Paris. 

In  the  ensuing  verbal  skir- 
mish. Che’s  daughter,  Aleida 
Guevara,  who  is  married  to  a 
member  of  the  Cuban  secu- 


rity forces,  has  blamed  Mr  De- 
bray for  “talking  more  thaw 
necessary"  while  in  prison, 
six  months  before  her  father 
was  captured  and  shot  by  a 
Bolivian  army  firing  squad  in 
October  1967.  Ms  Guevara 
was  aged  six  at  the  time. 

“He  was  never  really  Che’s 
companion.”  she  said.  “It's 
sad  that  a man  like  Regis  De- 
bray, so  linked  to  commit- 
nism  and  the  socialist  move- 
ment should  pass  suddenly 
and  totally  to  the  other  side." 

Yesterday,  Mr  Debray, 
whose  political  conversions 
have  included  belated  admi- 
ration for  Charles  de  Gaulle 
and  disillusionment  with  toe 
late  Socialist  president  Fran- 
cois Mitterrand,  issued  a 
statement  to  toe  newspaper 
Le  Monde  saying  he  had  writ- 
ten enough  about  toe  rebel 
lion  in  La  Guerilla  du  Che  in 
1974  not  to  have  to  justify  his 
behaviour  in  prison  “every 
time  it  suits  Havana  to  spit  on 
its  old  friends". 

He  accused  Ms  Guevara  of 
being  under  Dr  Castro’s 
orders  when  she  attacked  him 
m an  interview  in  Clarin,  a 
newspaper  in  Argentina, 
Che’s  native  country.  De- 
nouncing Havana's  “Stalin- 
ist” tactics.  Mr  Debray  added 
that  Cuba's  police  state  had 
become  its  own  caricature. 


“This  fell  from  grace  does 
not  justify  the  American  em- 
bargo which  ...  1 condemn, ’’ 
Mr  Debray  said.  “For  my  part 
. . . I have  put  a frill  stop  to 
this  political  period  [in  Bo- 
livia) but  these  insults  will 
not  make  me  forget  its 
nobility.” 

Referring  to  official  Cuban 
accusations  that  he  was  a 
traitor,  Mr  Debray  said  he 
was  being  attacked  because  of 
the  absurd  suspicion  that  he 
had  encouraged  resistance 
awfl  was  responsible  for  toe 
defection  of  Benigno. 

Yet  both  men  have  been  at 
odds  with  toe  regime  since 
toe  execution  in  1989  of  four 
of  Dr  Castro's  closest  asso- 
ciates. including  Tony  de  la 
Guardia,  a friend  of  Mr 
Debray. 

Mr  Ramirez  — Benigno  — 
described  Ms  Guevara’s 
attack  on  Mr  Debray  as  “new 
proof  of  toe  cynical  Stalinism 
which  has  taken  hold  of  a rev- 
olution which  I loved  and 
served  when  it  was  still  a 
revolution. 

“With  Us  infamous  and 
imagined  accusations,  Cas- 
tro’s regime  is  eluding  pre- 
cise questions:  Why  were  we 
abandoned  to  our  fete  in  Bo- 
livia? In  my  book  I have  given 
some  concrete  reasons  and  I 
can  continue  to  do  so.” 


Historic 

squabbles 


FIDEL  CASTRO  was  born 
in  1927  in  Cuba.  He  had  a 
law  practice  in  Havana  be- 
fore launching  the  guerrilla 
struggle  against  the  Batista 
regime  in  1953-  Sentenced  to 
IS  years'  Imprisonment,  he 
concluded  his  defence  with 
the  words;  “History  will  ab- 
solve me."  Exiled  in  1955. 
he  returned  In  1956 with  a 
small  band  of  fighters.  After 
the  revolution  in  January  . 
1959 he  became  prime  min- 
ister andlater  president.  ; 
When  the  United  States  im- 
posed a trade  embargo,  Cas- 
tro aligned  Cuba  with  the  ■ 
Soviet  Union,  an  d is  cur- 
rently toe  world’s  second-- 
longest-serving  head  of 
state. 

ERNESTO  “CHE”  GUE- 
VARA was  born  to  wealthy 
parents  in  Argentina  in 
1928-  As  a young  medical 
student  he  toured  South  ■ 
America  on  a 1930s  Norton 
500cc  motorcycle.  In  1954 
he  went  to  Guatemala  to  . 
join  the  newly  elected  left- 
wing  regime.  After  the  CIA 
coup  he  fled  to  Mexico 


where  he  met  Castro  ta 
1955.  and  joined  the  group 
that  led  the  Cuban  revolu- 
tion. Castro  appointed  him 
industry  minister  but  he 
left  Culm  In  1965  to  foment 
International  revolution. 

He  died  leading  an  Hl-toted 
guerrilla  column  in  Bolivia 
in  October  1967. 

ALEIDA  GUEVARA  was 
born  in  1961,  the  child  of 
Che’s  first  wife.  The  family 
was  left  behind  in  Cuba 
when  he  left  first  for  Zaire, 
then  for  Bolivia.  Aleida  was 
educated  in  Havana,  ' 
trained  as  a doctor,  and  be- 
came a pediatrician.  Close; 
to  Castro,  she  volunteered  • 
to  work  in  Angola  during 
the  war  with  South  Africa. 

REGIS  DEBRAY,  bom  in 
1940,  is  one  of  France’s  most 
controversial  intellectuals. 
He  made  a spectacular  polit- 
ical conversion  to  midlife. 
He  made  his  reputation  as  a 
man  of  the  left  with  travels 
in  Latin  America  when  still 
a student.  He  became  Mit- 
terand’s  Latin  American  ad- 
viser in  1981  and  a senior 
presidential  aide,  but 
resigned  during  the  second 
term.  He  subsequently 
worked  closely  with  Dan- 
ielle Mitterrand  in  her 


human  rights  movement, ' 
but  alienated  the  left,  with 
his  admiration  for  De  - 

Gaulle,  hte  ffirilliwlmimimt 

with  Castro. 

P ARIEL  ALARCON  RA- 
MIREZ was  bom  in  1941  / 
and  at  the  time  of  the  revo- 
lution was  a peasant- 
tumed-guerrilla,  aged  17. 
He  was  one  of  only  six  to 
survive  the  Bolivian  army 
ambush  which  led  to  Che's 
death  In  1967.  As  amilitaxy 
officer  he  served  in  Cuba’s 
interventions  in  Africa  In 
the  1970s  and  trained  thou- 
sands of  guerrillas,  mainly 
from  Latin  America  and  Af- 
rica- As  head  of  presidential 
security  he  averted  numer- 
ous assassination  attempts 
against  Castro,  as  well  as 
overseeing  and  toe  Cuban 
prison  system.  He  retired  in 
1993,  moving  to  France  last 
September.  In  The  Life  and 
Death  of  the  Cuban  Revolu- 
tion he  accuses  Castro  of  in- 
stituting a Stalinist  dicta-, 
torship  and  says  he  “can’t 
be  completely  sure”  Castro 
ordered  Guevara’s  death. 


officials  desperately  tried  to 
prevent  publicity  about  BSE 
leaking  out  for  five  years  in 
order  to  stave  off.  consumer 

nlapm  yd  malwhiin  toe  Sta- 

bffiiy  of  toe  meat  market 
Phillip  Whitehead,  the 
Labour  MEP  for  StafBxdshire 
East  and  Derby,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  Inquiry  com- 
mittee, saxL  “We  win  be  look- 
ing at  toe  extent  to  which 
there  was  a misguided  opera- 
tion. to  -fob  toe  public  oft 
There  seems  to  have  been  a 
very  shaky  line  between  mass 
panic  and  legitimate  con- 
sumer  concerns.” 

The  documents  — which 
were  not  disowned  by  toe 
commission  yesterday — in- 
dicate that  for  from  Tory  Eur- 
oscqptic  that  Europe 

ganged  up  on  Britain  when 
toe  crisis  erupted  last  March, 
toe  opposite  is  true  and  offi- 
cials in  Brussels  tried  to  hush 
up  the  BSE  epidemic  to  pro- 
tect formers . 

Among  toe  documents  pub- 
lished by  Liberation  is  a let- 
ter written  in  March  1993  by 
Guy  Legras,  toe  head  of  toe 
commission’s  agriculture  dir 
rectorate,  to  his  Italian  col- 
league. Ricardo  Perissich, 

then  haari  rtf  thajnfrgmal  man- 

ket  directorate  responsible 
for  acommittee  onfoodstuffk. 

In  it  Mr  Legras  warns  of  toe 
rink  of.  causing  a consumer 
panto  “ATI  discuBston  of  BSE 
inevitably  causes  problems  in 
the  meat  maitot  Last  Janu- 
ary we  had  an  alarm 
following  a programme  on 
German  television  and  it  was 
only  due  to  our  prudence  and 
discretion  at  that  time  that 
we  avoided  a panic ... . 

“In  order  to  maintain  pub- 
lic confidence  it  is  essential 
not  to  provoke  a reopening  of 
toe  debate.  If  you  can  help  me 
it  would  therefore  be  prudent 
to  avoid  a discussion  in  toe 

Mr  Perissich  replied;  “It 
looks  difficult  to  avoid  all  sci- 
entific debate  on  toe  question 
at  toe  European  level,  know- 
ing that  that  question  is  the 
subject  of  permanent  scien- 
tific examination  at  national 
level ” 


Mr  Legras’s  predecessor,  toe 
Spaniard  Fernando  Manstio. 
was  warning  the  member 
states?  chief  veterinary  offi- 
cers at  a meeting,  according 
to  the  minutes:  It  is  neces- 
sary to  have  a cold  attitude  in 
order  not  to  provoke  unfa- 
vourable reactions  In  the 
market  BSE  ought  not  to  fig- 
ure on  toe  agenda.” 

It  was  suggested  then  in  a 
memorandum  by  a French 
official,  Gilbert  Castilla,  that 
tile  UK  ought  to  be  asked  not 
to  publish  the  results  of  its 
scientific  research,  saying  “it 
would  be  better  to  minimise 
BSE  by  practising  disinfor- 
mation. It  would  be  better  to 
say  that  the  Press  has  a ten- 
dency to  exaggerate”. 

Other  documents  between 
during  the  period 
also  warn  against  opening  up 
a.  public  debate.  A British 
commission  official  was 
asked  to  Include  a paragraph 
in  a letter  to  toe  German  gov- 
ernment in  October  1993  on 
toe  political  risks  of  mount- 
ing a public  debate:  “The  af- 
fair has  caused  plenty  of 
noise  and  led  to  much  damage 
at  the  consumer  leveL” 

In  London,  the  Ministry  of 


As  early  as  October  1990, 


‘Documents  show 
the  desire  to 
prevent  the  public 
being  informed 
of  the  dangers’ 


Schools  ‘breaking  law 
on  informing  parents’ 


John  Carvel 
Education  Editor 


IOST  schools  are  flout- 
1 lug  their  legal  obliga- 
Ition  to  give  parents 
toe  basic  information  they 
need  to  make  Important  deci- 
sions about  their  children's 
education,  the  Consumers’ 
Association  warned  yester- 
day after  a survey  of  prospec- 
tuses and  governors’  annual 
reports. 

From  a representative 
sample  of  80  primary  and 
secondary  schools,  only  one 
gi-ve  all  the  information  stip- 
ulated in  the  Government's 
parents'  charter.  “A  stagger- 
ing 130  of  the  141  documents 
received  did  not  meet  the 
legal  requirements,”  the 
association  said. 


EST  ZOOM  COMPACT. 


I 

,1 


According  to  the  report, 
common  omissions  from  gov- 
ernors' reports  included: 
exam  results  and  national 
curriculum  test  assessments; 
absence  rates;  school  leaver 
destinations;  who  the  gover- 
nors were  and  when  they  met; 
how  much  they  claimed  in  ex- 
penses: and  when  the  next 
annual  meeting  and  elections 
for  parent  govern) rs  would  be 
held. 

About  a quarter  of  the 
secondary  schools  in  the 
sample  foiled  to  mention  any- 
thing about  toe  cost  of  field 
trips,  music  lessons  and  other 
extras  pupils  might  want  Al- 
most half  of  them  did  not  in- 
clude all  the  information  they 
were  required  to  give  on 
admissions. 

Other  schools  failed  to  ex- 
plain how  parents  could  visit 
the  school,  and  did  not  pro- 
vide information  on  sex  edu- 
cation. collective  worship  or 
any  provision  for  children 
with  special  educational 
needs. 

“Our  findings  are  ex- 
tremely disappointing,”  said 
Philip  Cullum.  toe  associa- 
tion’s polio'  manager.  “Non- 
compliance  is  widespread. 
Parents  simply  are  not  being 
given  enough  information  to 
help  them  choose  their  child’s 
school  and  to  hold  the 
school’s  governors  to  some 
account. 


“The  best  schools  managed 
to  sound  welcoming,  but  the 
worst  almost  implied  that 
parents  were  an  unavoidable 
inconvenience.” 

However,  blaming  Individ- 
ual schools  was  not  enough, 
Mr  Cullum  said:  “Local  edu- 
cation authorities  should  take 
responsibility  for  keeping 
tabs  on  whether  prospectuses 
and  governors’  annual 
reports  comply  with  legal 
requirements.” 

The  survey  was  conducted 
earlier  this  year  by  Consum- 
ers' Association  researchers, 
posing  as  parents.  Other  prob- 
lems revealed  by  the  report 
included  illegible  typefaces 
jargon  and  legalistic 
language. 

The  Consumers’  Associa- 
tion survey  included  exam- 
ples of  good  and  bad  gover- 
nor’ reports.  One  uninviting 
example  read:  “We  are 
required  to  provide  a written 
report  which  is  attached  to 
this  letter.  Some  aspects  of 
the  report  are  a mandatory 
requirement.” 

One  more  acceptable 
report,  however,  read:  “We 
look  forward  to  seeing  as 
many  parents  as  possible  at 
the  meeting,  and  hearing 
their  thoughts  about  the 
school  We  value  the  opinions 
of  parents  very  highly .’’ 


Row  over  pupO,  page  5 


Monks  urges  £4 
basic  pay  target 


Larry  Eliott 
and  Saunas  mine 


TOC  leadership  was 
last  night  trying  to  de- 
fuse an  impending  row 
over  the  minimum  wage 
ahead  of  next  week’s  confer- 
ence by  promising  that  its 
opening  bid  for  low  paid 
workers  under  a Labour  gov- 
ernment would  be  for  a 
national  floor  of  £4  an  hour. 

FearfUl  of  a Conservative 
campaign  over  the  costs  of  the 
SAJ2S  minimum  proposed  by 
the  public  sector  union  Uni- 
son, TUC  general  secretary 
John  Monks  is  seeking  a com- 
promise in  Blackpool  that 
will  satisfy  the  left  without 
embarrassing  Labour. 

Mr  Monks  will  tell  Thurs- 
day’s meeting  of  the  TOC  gen- 
eral council  that  the  unions 
should  be  aiming  for  £4  an 
hour  tf  the  low  pay  commis- 
sion promised  by  Labour  is 
set  up  after  toe  election.  The 
final  figure  would  be  arrived 
at  only  after  representations 
by  the  CB1  — which  would  be 
proposing  a figure  closer  to  £3 
— and  from  academics. 

However.  Mr  Monks  will 
press  for  toe  TOC  not  to  lock 
itself  into  a fixed  negotiating 
stance  up  to  18  months  before 
a minimum  wage  could  ap- 
pear on  toe  statute  book. 
Frantic  efforts  are  being 


made  to  ensure  that  the  Uni- 
son motion  is  defeated  if  it 
reaches  the  congress  floor. 

A minimum  wage  of  £426 
an  hour  would  affect  28  per 
cent  erf  the  working  popula- 
tion, and  toe  TUC  leadership 
believes  the  Government 
would  respond  to  such  a 
claim  with  a concerted  cam- 
paign in  which  ministers 
would  assert  that  any  benefits 
would  be  outweighed  by  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  job 
losses  and  the  inflationary 
impact  of  attempts  to  restore 
wage  differentials. 

Mr  Monks  argues  that  the 
minimum  wage  is  a popular 
policy  and  will  help  Labour’s 
electoral  chances  by  offering 
a solution  to  job  insecurity. 
However,  in  private  he  is  ar- 
guing that  a vote  far  £428  an 
hour  could  undermine  public 
support  for  toe  concept. 

• The  Communication  Work- 
ers’ Union  strike  committee 
will  meet  tomorrow  to  thrash 
out  Its  next  moves  in  toe 
postal  dispute  after  yester- 
day's 24-hour  strike  shut 
down  toe  service  for  toe 
eighth  time  since  June.  Royal 

Mail  last  night  again  claimed 
that  support  for  the  union 
was  crumbling,  although  its 
own  figures  showed  more 
than  100,000  were  on  strike. 


Unkm  future  I*  In  mutual 
satisfaction,  page  0 


“What  on  earth  do  you  think  you’re  up  to  talking  to 
that  evil  screw  from  Brixton  Prison?  You’re  meant 
to  be  glad  to  have  seen  the  back  of  people  like 
that”.  It  was  a fact  Neil  Kinnock  looked  remarkably 
like  a Brixton  screw . . 


PENTAX 


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ARGENTINE  REPUBLIC 


NATIONAL  STATE 
MINISTRY  OF  THE 
INTERIOR 

(Ministerio  del  Interior) 

Public,  National  and  International  Bid 
No  01/96 

Full,  indivisible  contract  of  a service  for 
the  design,  start  up  and  support  of  a 
System  of  Migration  Control  and 
Identification  of  Individuals  and  of 
electoral  information. 

Interested  parties  may  ask  for  Information  and  purchase  bid 
specifications  of  Subsecretaria  de  Poblacion  (Under  Secretariat 
of  Population)  of  the  Ministry  of  Interior,  at  Avenida  Leandro  N. 
Alem  168  -5°  Piso  - Capital  Federal,  from  Monday  to  Friday 
from  12:00  noon  to  4:00  AM  as  of  the  30th  day  of  August  of  the 
year  1996. 

Value  of  the  Bid  Specifications:  eighty  thousand  pesos 
($80,000), 

Bids  shall  be  received  at  the  Subsecretaria  de  Poblacion  of  the 
Ministry  of  the  Interior,  located  at  Avenida  Leandro  N.  Alem  168 
- 5 Piso  - Capital  Federal,  until  12:00  noon  of  the  25th  day  of 
October  of  the  year  1 996. 

The  opening  of  bids  shall  be  carried  out  the  same  day  at  1:00 
PM  at  the  Subsecretaria  de  Pobiaci6n  of  the  Ministry  of  the 
Interior.  -■ 


Agriculture  and  government 
sources  declined  to  comment 
on  the  disclosures  on  toe 
grounds  that  they  were  pri- 
vate commission  matters,  but 
said  that  Britain  would  CO-op- 
erate  fully  with  the  European 
Parliament's  inquiry. 

Philippe  de  Villiers,  a 
French  Eurosceptic  member 
of  Sir  James  Goldsmith’s 
L ’Autre  Europe  grouping  in 
toe  Parliament,  threatened  to 
initiate  legal  action,  adding: 
“The  documents  demonstrate 
the  desire  of  toe  commission 
to  prevent  at  any  cost  the  pub- 
lic being  informed  of  the  dan- 
gers of  BSE.’.’ 

The  commission’s  chief 
spokesman,  Klaus  Van  der 
Pas,  said  it:  would  make  all 
documents  available  to  a com- 
mittee of  MEPs  who  today 
begin  an  investigation  into 
the  hnndTjng  of  the  BSE  cri- 
sis. Asked  whether  Mr  Legras 
stm  had  the  confidence  of  Jac- 
ques San  ter,  toe  EC  presi- 
dent, he  replied:  "At  the  mo- 
ment I have  no  reason  to  say 
anything  else  but  yes.” 


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News  in  brief 


Missing  boy  found 
drowned  on  beach 

POLICE  last  night  said  the  body  of  a boy  found  drowned  on  a 
beach  at  Sheringham,  north  Norfolk,  on  Sunday  had  been 
formally  Identified  as  that  of  four-year-old  Tom  Loughlin,  who 
vanished  from  a beach  30  miles  away  with  his  six-year-old 
sister,  Jodi,  two  weeks  ago. 

Jodi's  body  was  found  on  a beach  oetween  Sheringham  and 
nearby  Wey bourne  last  week,  and  tests  showed  she  drowned. 

The  two  children  were  last  seen  running  excitedly  toward  the 
beach  at  Holme,  near  Hunstanton,  Norfolk,  on  Sunday,  August 
18.  a day  after  beginning  their  holiday.  Neither  could  swim. 
Their  parents,  Kevin  Loughlin  and  Lynette  Thornton,  both  37 
and  from  Norwood,  south  London,  have  remained  in  Norfolk 
since  the  tragedy.  ^ J 

Mr  Loughlin.  a computer  consultant,  and  Ms  Thornton,  a 
physiotherapist,  said  they  had  only  taken  their  eyes  off  the 
children  for  five  minutes,  and  could  not  believe  they  had 
drowned  in  such  short  a time  when  the  sea  was  so  calm.  A 
massive  land  and  sea  search  had  failed  to  find  any  trace  of  the 
children. 


Six-death  road  crash  plea 

WITNESSES  are  being  urgently  sought  by  police  who  are  baffled 
over  the  cause  of  a road  accident  near  Frome  in  Somerset  early  on 
Sunday  morning  in  which  six  young  people  died  returning  from 
the  nearby  One  World  pop  festival. 

Avon  and  Scsneraet  police  are  hoping  roadside  witnesses, 
possibly  including  people  leaving  the  festival,  might  help  solve 
the  mystery  of why  the  youngsters'  car  crossed  the  single  car- 
riageway into  the  path  of  an  oncoming  van  before  hitting  two  18- 
year-old  men  walteng  on  the  grass  verge — one  of  whom  was  last 

nl^tatmmacrltlcalcopditk>nmhospltaLHisamipapion,anda 
man  and  woman  in  the  van,  were  also  detained  in  hospital  with 
minor  injuries. 

Among  the  dead  were  two  grandchildren  of  first  world  war  poet 
Siegfried  Sassoon —Tom  Sassoon,  18.  and  his  sister  Isobel,  20, 


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Stokes,  22,  and  Melanie  France,  21,  both  from  Frame,  and  Christo- 
pher Ashton,  19,  and  Charles  Weals.  21,  from  Salisbury.  An 
inquest  into  their  deaths  will  be  opened  at  Wells  on  Thursday. 


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had  emergency  surgery  yes- 
terday alter  falling  ill  at  the 
Venice  Film  FesttvaL 

Neeson,  aged  42.  star  of  the 
film  Michael  Collins,  pre- 
miered on  Saturday,  was  In 
hospital  in  Padua  with  an  in- 
testinal complaint  Warner 
Brothers  said.  He  bad  been 
feeling  unwell  for  some  time. 

Neeson,  who  appeared  in 
Schindler's  List  and  Rob  Roy. 
was  expected  to  make  a com- 
plete recovery,  the  spokesman 
said.  He  had  wanted  to  be  at 
the  premiere  as  a matter  of 
principle,  which  might  have 
explained  why  he  left  the  OS 
while  feeling  unwell 


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Taking  off  at  last ...  A prototype  of  the  Euxofighter  making  Its  first  UK  public  flight  at  the  Famborough  Air  Show  yesterday 


PHOTOGRAPH:  GRAHAM 


Portillo  backs  Eurofighter 


£1 5 billion  boost  for  industry 
and  RAF  depends  on  go-ahead 
from  key  partner  Germany 


Doctor  jailed  for  pistol  threat 

A DOCTOR  who  held  a starting  pistol  to  the  throat  of  a car 
passenger  m a road  rage  row  was  jailed  for  three  months  yester- 
day at  Harrow  crown  court  in  north-west  London. 

Hospital  registrar  Chide  Uche.  aged  28,  of  Willesden  Green, 
north-west  London,  had  been  found  guilty  last  month  of  possess- 
ing an  Lmitaticm  firearm  with  intent  to  cause  fear  or  violence.  The 
court  bad  been  told  that  Uche  jumped  out  ofhis  BMW  when  a car 
blocked  his  way  in  a Cricklewood  car  park  last  December,  and 
threatened  Michael  McNamara  with  an  Olympic  6 starting  pistol 
he  had  bought  for  his  nephew. 

Passing  sentence.  Recorder  HarendraDe  Silva  QC  said  be  took 
into  account  that  Uche  may  have  been  “apprehensive"  as  Mr 
McNamaraapproached  him  swearing  and  shouting.  The  judge 
also  said  he  hadfelt  able  to  reduce  the  sentence  because  be  did  not 
believe  there  was  any  chance  cf  Uche  reoffending.  In  Ucbe's 
defence,  the  court  had  been  told  the  incident  was  a tragedy  for  the 
career  of  a respected  doctor. 


Sarah  Bosetey 
and  Michael  White 


THE  Defence  Secre- 
tary. Michael  Por- 
tillo. yesterday  de- 
clared that  the  UK 
was  ready  to  com- 
mit itself  to  the  production  of 
the  £40-billion  Eurofighter 
aircraft,  giving  a boost  to  in- 
dustry and  jobs  and  a firm 
midge  to  Germany,  which  is 
dragging  its  feet. 

In  a statement  to  coincide 
with  the  Famborough  Air 
Show,  where  a prototype  of 
the  costly  and  much  delayed 
front-line  combat  aircraft 


I flew  yesterday  for  the  first 
time  in  the  UK  in  public,  Mr 
Portillo  said  the  announce- 
ment was  good  news  for  in- 
dustry and  the  RAF,  which 
will  get  232  Eurofighters  to 
replace  the  ageing  Tornado 
F3  and  the  Jaguar,  at  a cost  to 
Britain  of  £15  billion. 

“The  four-nation  Euro- 
fighter  programme  will  en- 
sure that  the  European  aero- 
space industry  remains  at  the 
forefront  of  technology.  And 
in  the  UK  alone,  it  will  sup- 
port up  to  14,000  jobs." 

The  announcement  was 1 
directed  at  two  main  audi- 
ences: marginal  constituen- 
cies In  areas  such  as  Lanca- 


shire, Derby  and  Bristol, 
which  stand  to  gain  or  keep 
jobs,  and  the  German 
government 

There  has  been  a long  his- 
tory of  German  doubts  and 
near -withdrawals  because  of 
the  escalating  cost  After  the 
Berlin  Wall  came  down,  Ger- 
many exchanged  military  in- 
security for  financial 
liabilities. 

The  German  treasury  is 
under  even  mare  pressure 
now  as  it  tries  to  meet  the 
Maastricht  single-currency 
timetable.  The  government 
has  said  it  will  not  decide 
whether  to  commit  money  to 
production  of  the  Eurofighter 
until  next  year. 

Agreement  on  the  numbers 
each  would  buy  and  the  dis- 
tribution of  production  work 
was  reached  with  Germany 
and  the  other  partners,  Italy 
and  Spain,  at  the  beginning  of 
the  year,  however,  and  it  is 
thought  none  of  the  four 
nations  will  want  to  lose  their 
hefty  investment  in  the  air- 
craft’s development 

But  for  all  its  up-beat  go- 
getting  tone,  yesterday's 
statement  was  qualified,  be- 
cause Britain  cannot  proceed 
without  the  partners. 

Production  will  not  start 
until  all  the  signatures  are  on 
paper. 

Michael  Heseltine,  the  Dep- 
uty Prime  Minister,  who 
played  a key  role  in  the  *808  In 
persuading  the  European  gov- 
ernments to  work  together, 
said  the  announcement  gave 
him  “enormous  personal 
pleasure".  But  Britain  had  to 
learn  from  the  United  States 
and  root  out  '‘uncompetitive 
structures  and  practices"  if  it 


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was  to  take  advantage  of 
global  opportunities. 

The  Government  had 
pumped  £1.2  billion  into  the  , 
aerospace  industry  since  1979 
— far  more  than  it  put  into 
any  other  manufacturing  in- 
dustry. “This  is  an  industry 
of  central  importance  to  the 
British  Government  and  one 
which  we  are  right  to  sup- 
port This  is  a world  industry 
in  which  giant  companies 
compete  ruthlessly  with  each 
other.  International  collabo- 
ration is  essential.” 

The  National  Audit  Office 
has  criticised  the  cumber- 
some management  of  the  pro- 


ject, spread  across  four 
nations,  which  it  said  was 
responsible  for  a large  part  of 
the  inflated  cost 
Labour  and.  the  Liberal 
Democrats  welcomed  the  pro- 
duction go-ahead  yesterday, 
but  there  are  still  some  Tories 
who  believe  the  Eurofighter 
is  a doomed  and  costly  at- 
tempt to  compete  with  the 
United  States  — and  that 
cash-conscious  Germany 
would  be  doing  everyone  a 
liavour  by  pulling  the  plug  on 
it 

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Countdown 


1980:  Initial  proposal  for  a 
European  Fighter  Aircraft'  ? • . . 
1985:  France  drops  out  after  • 
wrangles  over  type  of  aircraft- 
to  build,  leaving  Britain,  Ger-  . 
many,  Italy  and  Spam  to  go  it  *■ 
alone. 

May  1988:  The&ur  partners 
sign  an  agreement  to  order  - 
prototypes.  Project  is  costedat 
£22  billion,  with  the  UKabare: 
£7  billion.  Aircraft  expected  to 
be  in  service  in  1996.  • 

1990:  Germans  consider  wfth-. 
drawing  over  cost  tf  Geonaqr" 
unification,  which  removed  7 
main  security  problem.  .< 

1992:  Germany  pulls  out  of 
development  phase,  followed 
by  Italy.  Cabinet  splits  mergp  - 
and  Michael  Portillo  at  the 
Treasury  tries  to  get  MoD  to 
abandon  project 
December  1992:  Project  res- 
cued when  four  partner 
nations  agree  to  cut  costs  to 
keep  Germans  in.  Aircraft 
renamed  EuroBghter. 

October 1999:  Concern  about 
aircrafts  computer' system  de- 
lays  Inauguralflight  ■ 

March  1 994:  Plane  takes  off . 
for  first  time— in  Germany. 
August  1995:  National  Audit 
Office  critical  of  mtematwnal 

l work-sharing  arrangements, 
blaming  them  for  23  per  cent 

I increase  In  development  costs 
since  1988 — an  increase  of  • 
£2^  billion  to  Britain. 
November 1995:DeferjC8Sec- 
retary  Michael  Portillo  said  to  ' 
beromsideringtatyingUS- 
niade  Stealth  bomba:  instead. 
UK  andGennany  reach  out-  . 
ime  flfifl]  on  sbaringproduc- 
tionwoark;  _ - . 


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It  takesl2  mils Bf  cottonto 
mate  a Lands’End  Pinpoint  Oxford. 
And  that’s  just  the  beginning 


When  you  put  on  one  of  our 
Pinpoints,  you  notice  right 
away  how  alky  smooth  it  feels. 

That  comes  from  the  extremely 
tight  weave  of  our  Oxford  fabric  - 
a weave  that  wouldn’t  be  possible 
without  a very  fine  cotton  yarn. 

Now,  at  Lands'  End  - the  Direct 
Merchants  from  America  - we 
don't  believe  in  spinning  yarns 
about  our  yarns.  This  one  is  very 
fine:  it's  what  shirtmakers  call  an 
80s  2-ply. 

And  actually,  it  takes  more  than 
12  miles  of  it  to  make  one  of  our 
Pinpoints -12  miles.  946  feet,  to 
be  exact 

Some  off-the-cuff  remarks 
These  beauties  are  made  with 
the  kind  of  “Old  World"  tailoring 
you  don't  find  much  anymore, 
even  in  the  Old  World. 

Each  one  takes  69  different 
sewing  steps,  for  example. 

The  shoulders  have  an  authen- 
tic split-back  yoke.  Which  simply 
means  the  yoke  - the  part  that 
goes  over  die  shoulders  - is  cut  in 


four,  then  sewn  back  together. 
This  allows  it  to  a Utile 

when  you  move. 

You  can  also  pat  us  on  the  back 
/ \ for  the  full  box 

****  “|  pleat  on  the 

j| back.  This  pleat 

I I opens  up  when 

The  yoke  is  s$Jit  - you  reach 
moves  token  you  do  across  a table. 
So  the  shirt  feels  roomier. 

We’re  even  fussy  about  our  but- 
tons. They're  classified  as  “super 
durable"  in  the  trade.  (They’re 
less  likely  to  crack  or  break.)  And 
our  buttonholes  are  just  as 
durable;  each  is  edged  with  120 
lock  stitches,  so  it  wont  fray. 

The  price  sews  it  up. 

Maybe  you  can  find  Pinpoints 
with  quality  Eke  ours  at  those 
fancy  men's  stores.  But  we  doubt 
you’ll  find  anything  Gke  our  prices. 

Or  anything  like  our  assort- 
ment Solids  and  stripes.  Button- 
downs  and  straight  collars.  And 
more  collar  and  sleeve  sizes  than 
you  can  shake  a yardstick  at. 


See  for  yourself.  Call  and  ask 
one  of  our  friendly  British 
Operators  fora  Lands'  End  cata- 
logue, which  has  lots  of  other  clas- 
sic, American-style  clothing.  For 
men  and  women. 

Usually,  we  deliver  in  just  a few 
days.  And  if  you  don’t  like  some- 
thing, send  it  back.  It's -“Guaranteed. 
Period*  "(And  that's  in  addition  to 
your  statutory  rights.) 

Seems  even  our  Guarantee  is 
tailored  better. 


Alex  Bellos 

SHE  could  not  believe 
her  luck.  Cannabis 
plants  as  far  as  the  eye 
could  see.  So  she  parked 
her  track  and  made  the 
place  her  home. 

Only  this  was  not  in  the 
Golden  Triangle  or  Mo- 
rocco. The  18-year-old  trav- 
eller had  found  paradise  hi 
a hidden  corner  of 
Oxfordshire. 

“She  most  have  thought 
she  was  in  seventh  heaven. 
It  is  every  hippy’s  dream 
come  true,  if  it  wasn’t  such 
a serious  matter  it  would  be 
hysterical,  ” muttered  the 
Old  Bill  when  they  discov- 


ered that  the  county’s  best 
kept  secret  was  not  so 
secret  after  all. 

It  appeared  that  the  teen- 
ager had  been  living  in  the 
Home  Office-licensed  hemp 
farm  for  several  weeks. i 
There  was  a fire,  food  carw  . 
lying  around,  and  cannabis  | 
j leaves  drying  In  the  sun. 

Acting  on  a tip-off  the , 
police  had  visited  the  form. 
“‘We  just  drove  down  a 
trade,  turned  In  through  an 

open  gate  and  were  smack 

bang  in  the  middle  of  a mas- 
sive dope  plantation,”  said 
one  officer. 

“There  were  12  ft  canna- 
bis plants  everywhere.  It 
looked  more  like  Colombia 
than  Oxfordshire.  I have 


never  seen  anything  like  it 
Then  we  spotted  this  dilapi- 
dated old  piwh  narked  in 
some  trees  in  the  middle  of 
it  all  and  some  of  the  crop 
drying  out  in  the 
sunshine.** 

The  115  acre  plantation  is 
one  of  a small  number  in 
England.  Their  locations 
are  secret  and  farmers  have 
to  conform  to  strict  rules, 
sometimes  Including  grow- 
ing wheat  round  the  out- 
side to  disguise  the  mum- 
his  plants. 

(tally  the  stalks  are  pro- 
cessed, for  use  in  making 
rope,  paper  and  hessian: 
The  leaves  and  flowering 
heads  are  destroyed.  The . 
farmer  must  keep  gates  to  | 


the  _ fie|dis_  start 
locked,-  and  ■mafatfatn  -de- 
Sledl records  of  when  the 
crops  were.  - 

Bat  poHcdKsafS'lhat  this 
time  security  Was  non-exis- 
tent. “We.  have  spoken  to 
the  farmer  and  asked  the 
Home' Office  te  review  the 
nwmw  in  file  light  of  our 
findings.. If  they  consider 
the  case  is  serious  enough 
they  could  withdraw  their 
parfHterimi  and  revoke  the 
licence.”  .-.  . . _ 

When  the  police  arrived 
tiie  . girl  was  not  there-  A 
warrant  has  been  Issopdfor 
her  arrest  under  toe  Mis- 
use of  Drags  Act  ; ■ ■ ' 

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Teenagers  who  watch 
more  than  four  hours  tele- 
vision a night  are  more  prone 
to  crime,  drug-taking  and  be- 
coming isolated  from  society, 
academics  said  yesterday. 

The  warning  followed  pub- 
lication of  research  which 
found  that  TV  addicts  — 
those  watching  at  least  four 
hours  a night  — are  more 
likely  to  have  anti-social  atti- 
tudes, become  isolated  from 
parents  and  feel  disillusioned. 

The  researchers,  from  Trin- 
ity College,  Carmarthen,  said 
these  youngsters  developed 
spectator  mentalities  which 
prevented  them  from  taking 
an  active  part  in  life. 

Of  20,000  teenagers  aged  be- 
tween 13  and  15  surveyed  at 


schools  in  England  and 
Wales,  more  than  a quarter 
said  they  watched  at  least 
four  hours  a night.  After  com- 
paring their  attitudes  with 
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their  rmrirngs  painted  a dis- 
turbing picture  of  isolation 

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addict  groupdismissed  school 
as  boring,  compared  to  fewer 
than  30  per  cent  of  those  who 
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were  also  happier  to.  accept 
they  might  be  unemployed 
after  school,  and  more  than  20 
per  cent  would  prefer  it  to 
work  they  did  not  like.  More 
than  one  in  20  condoned  shop- 
lifting, compared  with  only 
one  in  20  other  teenagers, 
while  one  in  five  viewed  graf- 
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tolerant  cf  drugs.  Fewer  than 
50  per  cent  thought  using  can- 
nabis was  wrong;  more  than 
25  per  cent  approved  of  glue 
sniffing  and  80  per  cent 
thought  heroin  use  and  sniff- 
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‘There  is  absolutely  no  justice  in 
putting  a victim  through  so  much  that 
they  become  damaged  psychologically 
before  a charge  can  be  brought’ 


aB  WOMAN  who  won 
a test  case  against 
a stalker  who  sub- 
MlMjected  her  to  a cam- 
^bpaign  of  terror  last- 
ing more  than  three  years, 
publicly  relived  her  ordeal  for 
the  first  time  yesterday. 

Tracey  Sant  saw  a former 
work  colleague,  Anthony  Bur- 
stow.  jailed  for  three  years 
earlier  this  year,  after  he  be- 
came the  first  stalker  to  be 
convicted  of  grievous  bodily 
harm. 

Mrs  Sant's  account  came  at 
the  International  Police 
Training  Conference  in  Bir- 
mingham where  one  of  the 
UK’s  most  senior  women 
police  officers  called  for  the 
proposed  laws  on  stalking  to 
be  made  more  stringent. 
Maria  Wallis,  Assistant  Chief 
Constable  of  Sussex,  said  the 
persistent  use  of  words  or  be- 
haviour that  harassed, 
alarmed  or  distressed  victims 
should  be  made  an  arrestable 
offence. 

The  conference  heard  it 


was  Burstow’s  19th  convic- 
tion. He  repeatedly  broke  in- 
junctions and  bail  conditions 
not  to  approach  Mrs  Sant  and 
even  continued  stalking  her 
after  he  was  sent  to  jail  part 
way  through  his  campaign. 

Yesterday  his  victim  also 
emphasised  the  importance  of 
tightening  the  law.  ‘Teople 
said  to  me:  why  am  1 cam- 
paigning for  a stalking  law 
when  the  law  obviously  is 
there  now  to  daal  with  stalk- 
ers? What  1 say  is:  it’s  not 

“There  is  absolutely  no  jus- 
tice in  patting  a victim 
through  so  much  that  they  be- 
come damaged  psychologi- 
cally before  a charge  can  be 
brought 

“Let  people  have  a right  to 
go  outside  their  front  doors 
without  wondering  If  there 
will  be  phone  calls,  obscene 
mail,  confrontations,  and 
leave  them  desperately  won- 
dering if  they  are  going  to 
survive  the  day.” 

Mrs  Sant  firk  met  Burstow 
at  the  naval  base  at  which 


they  worked  in  Hampshire  in 
November.  1992.  She  tried  to 
help  him  overcome 
depression. 

Within  a month,  however, 
he  began  to  appear  when  she 
went  to  aerobics  or  evening 
classes.  By  the  end  of  the 
month  she  was  terrified  and 
was  taking  sleeping  pills. 

She  described  how  mail 
began  going  missing,  mes- 
sages were  found  on  her  ans- 
werphone  and  how  she  found 
an  item  of  her  underwear 
from  her  bedroom  drawer 
draped  over  the  wing  mirror 
of  her  car. 

There  were  silent  phone 
calls,  unsigned  mail  and  oil 
was  poured  over  the  car. 
Members  of  her  family  and 
her  husband's  family  also 
began  to  be  harassed. 

Burstmv  was  jailed  for  six 
months  for  pouring  the  oil  on 
the  car  but  was  released  on 
appeal  while  Mrs  Sant  and 
her  husband  were  on  holiday. 
They  returned  to  find  their 
home  had  been  broken  into 
and  personal  items,  including 
their  wedding  video,  had  been 
stolen. 

Burstow  was  jailed  for  18 
months  for  the  break-in,  but 
continued  to  send  mail  and 
make  phone  calls  from 
prison.  While  he  was  behind 
bars,  however,  the  most  dis- 


turbing evidence  of  bis  obses- 
sion was  discovered:  he  had 
bugged  Mrs  Sant’s  sola,  bed 
and  office. 

On  his  release.  Burstow 
started  where  he  had  left  off. 
The  pressure  told  on  Mrs 
Sant's  marriage  and  her  hus- 
band left  They  are  divorcing 
this  month. 

She  moved  to  her  parents' 
home,  but  the  calls  and  letters 
continued.  Police,  unable  to 
find  evidence  to  prosecute 
Burstow,  were  helpless. 

Ten  months  later,  after 
police  compiled  a dossier  to 
press  the  pioneering  charge 
of  grievous  bodily  harm,  Bur- 
stow pleaded  guilty  and  was 
jailed. 

Miss  Wallis,  a member  of 
the  Association  of  Chief 
Police  Officers  working  party 
dealing  with  stalking,  said 
she  was  “broadly  in  favour” 
of  the  proposals,  as  were 
many  police  forces.  Research 
findings  from  police  forces 
throughout  the  country 
showed  in  the  155  stalking 
cases  reported,  that  144  vic- 
tims were  female,  10  were 
male  and  one  was  a family. 

In  a third  of  the  cases  there 
was  a domestic  or  other 
relationship  between  victim 
and  stalker.  Thirty -four  were 
linked  through  work,  40  casu- 
ally linked  and  32  unknown. 


More  women  officers  the  answer 
to  cult  of  masculinity  in  police 
stations,  says  ex-superintendent 


Suppressing  sexism 

among  policemen 
merely  forces  snch  atti- 
tudes and  language  under- 
ground, a former  superin- 
tendent said  yesterday. 

Malcolm  Young,  now  a 
lecturer  in  anthropology, 
said  officers  imbued  “with 


the  cult  of  masculinity" 
would  find  new  venues  for 
their  outlook  if  it  was  no 
longer  tolerated  in  police 
stations.  He  argued  the  cor- 
rect strategy  was  to  make 
forces  more  equal  in  terms 
of  the  proportions  of  men 
and  women  officers. 


If  suppressed,  the  mascu- 
linity cult  became  local- 
ised. covert,  and  more  in- 
tense, and  surfaced  in  “CID 
pnbs  or  wherever".  Dr 
Young  told  the  police  train- 
ing conference. 

“We’ve  got  a culture  in 
the  police  which  is  170 
years  old.  But  for  140  years 
it  was  exclusively  male-run 
and  male-dominated. 

“Yon  can’t  change  a cul- 
ture in  30  years,  especially 
one  so  male-orientated.” 
Phrases  describing 


women  officers  as  “rough 
as  a robber’s  dog" 
remained  prevalent.  Men 
used  such  language  when 
they  felt  under  threat,  he 
said,  and  male  officers 
faced  by  women  colleagues 
often  resorted  to  it 
Dr  Young,  a policeman 
for  33  years,  said  the 
answer  to  sexist  attitudes 
was  to  recruit  more 
women.  “It  needs  to  be  the 
norm  that  forces  are  50-50. 
give  or  take  10  per  cent 
either  way.” 


New  moves  in  rows  over  pupils 


Donald  MacLeod 
Education  Correspondent 


CHILDREN  return 
today  to  the  Notting- 
hamshire school  at 
which  teachers  have  threat- 
ened to  strike  if  they  are 
forced  to  teach  a boy  aged  10. 

At  an  emergency  meeting 
last  night,  governors  of  Man- 
ton  Junior  school.  Worksop, 
discussed  compromise  pro- 
posals for  Matthew  Wilson  to 
be  taught  in  isolation  by  a 
supply  teacher.  He  was  twice 
expelled  by  the  head  teacher 
but  reinstated  by  governors. 
He  is  not  due  to  attend  the 
school  until  Monday. 

Nigel  de  Gruchy.  general 
secretary  of  the  National 
Association  of  Schoolmasters 
Union  of  Women  Teachers, 
said  a settlement  would  de- 
pend on  the  details  of  any  pro- 
posal. Yesterday  he  talked  to 
Fred  Riddell,  chairman  of  the 
county's  education  committee. 


Sarah  Taylor parents 

withdrew  her  from  school 

The  boy’s  mother.  Pamela 
Cliffe.  was  unhappy  about  the 
deal  but  said  she  did  not  want 
other  children  to  suffer.  Some 
governors  accused  teachers  of 
making  a scapegoat  of  a 


“bright  but  challenging"  boy. 

Meanwhile,  a strike  by 
NASUWT  members  at  the 
Ridings  School  in  Halifax. 
West  Yorkshire,  was  called 
off  when  the  parents  of  Sarah 
Taylor,  aged  13,  withdrew  her 
from  school  I:  was  the  latest 
in  a series  of  confrontations 
in  which  the  union  has  forced 
the  withdrawal  of  disruptive 
children  from  classes. 

Sarah  was  expelled  last 
term  for  alleged  violence 
against  2 teacher  and  pupiL 
After  an  appeal  to  the  local 
education  authorin’,  she  was 
allowed  to  return  for  the  new 
term  yesterday. 

Teachers  voted  ra  strike  if 
they  were  asked  to  teach  her. 
and  it  was  decided  that  she 
would  receive  tuition  from 
the  head  teacher.  Jacqueline 
Taylor  and  her  husband. 
Michael  were  unhappy  with 
the  arrangement  and  decided 
to  withdraw  their  daughter. 

Mr  de  Gruchy  said  there 
was  a feeling  of  relief  among 


his  members.  "They  should 
be  congratulated  on  taking  a 
firm  stand  in  defence  of  law 
and  order.” 

Sarah's  family  say  they  will 
take  legal  advice  about  an  al- 
leged attack  on  Sarah  by  a 
teacher.  Mr  de  Gruchy  denied 
that  she  had  been  attacked. 

• The  decision  by  all  15  com- 
prehensive- in  the  London 
borough  of  Bromley  to  select 
15  per  cent  of  their  pupils 
would  be  repeated  by  schools 
in  other  areas.  Sir  Robert  Bal- 
chin.  chairman  of  the  Grant 
Maintained  Schools  founda- 
tion. said  yesterday. 

The  decision  marks  a break- 
through for  the  Government 
in  its  policy  of  dismantling 
comprehensive  education. 
Until  now,  only  41  grant-main- 
tained schools  had  applied  to 
introduce  some  selection. 

Parents  in  Bromley  fear 
that  selection  tests  will  draw 
in  hundreds  of  pupils  from 
other  authorities  and  squeeze 
out  the  borough’s  children. 


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Tracy  Sant . . . relived  ordeal  during  which  her  sofa,  bed  and  office  were  bugged  by  obsessive  stalker  photograph:  sieve  hill 

Loyalist  bomb  attack  ‘meant  to  kill’ 


Vivek  Chaudhary  In  Belfast 


THE  parents  of  Alex  Kerr, 
one  of  two  men  ordered 
to  leave  Northern  Ire- 
land or  face  death  by  the  loy- 
alist paramilitary  leadership, 
said  yesterday  that  a bomb 
attack  on  their  home  was  in- 
tended to  kill. 

Pressure  was  also  mount- 
ing yesterday  for  fringe  loyal- 
ist parties  to  be  excluded  from 
next  week’s  Stormont  talks 
following  the  attack  and  the 
issuing  of  the  ultimatum  last 
week  to  Mr  Kerr  and  leading 
loyalist  Billy  Wright  to  quit 
Northern  Ireland. 

Mr  Kerr’s  father,  also  called 
Alex,  who  was  60  on  Sunday 
when  a bomb  was  thrown 
through  the  window  of  hts 
south  Belfast  home,  said:  “I 
don't  think  they  came  to  scare 
us  away.  They  came  to  put  us 
away.  I’m  an  easy  target 
When  they  issued  the  ultima- 
tum to  my  son  I was  expecting 


Alex  Kerr,  whose  son  faces 
a loyalist  death  threat 

a brick  through  the  window 
but  never  a bomb.” 

Last  Wednesday,  the  Com- 
bined Loyalist  Military  Com- 
mand (CLMC)  gave  Billy 
Wright  72  hours  to  leave  the 


province  or  face  death.  Mr 
Kerr,  who  is  on  remand  fac- 
ing terrorist  charges,  has 
been  ordered  to  leave  the 
province  upon  release.  The 
refusal  of  both  men  to  leave, 
however,  and  Mr  Wright's 
public  criticisms  of  fringe  loy- 
alist groups  has  sparked  fears 
of  a bloody  feud  within  their 
ranks. 

David  Ervine,  spokesman 
for  the  fringe  Progressive 
Unionist  Party  (PUP),  which 
is  representing  the  interests 
of  the  paramilitary  LOster 
Volunteer  Force  at  the  Stor- 
mont talks,  due  to  resume 
next  week,  denied  that  Sun- 
day night's  attack  was  carried 
out  on  the  orders  of  the 
CLMC-  “People  should  look  at 
the  other  parties  involved  and 
see  who  this  attack  benefits 
and  it's  not  the  CLMC." 

However.  Mr  Ervine 
refused  to  condemn  the  ulti- 
matums. which  have  split  loy- 
alist ranks  and  could  lead  to 
retaliation  if  the  threats  to 


kill  them  are  carried  out 

Mr  Ervine  also  dismissed 
calls  from  the  Rev  Ian  Paisley 
for  fringe  loyalist  groups  to  be 
barred  from  the  Stormont 
talks  unless  they  condemn 
the  CLMC  “directive". 

Mr  Paisley  said  all  those 
participating  needed  to  ad- 
here to  the  Mitchell  Princi- 
ples "otherwise  there  will  be 
no  place  for  them  at  the 
table". 

Mo  Mowletn,  the  shadow 
Northern  Ireland  secretary, 
said  in  an  interview  with  a 
Belfast  newspaper  that  all  loy- 
alist parties  needed  to  be  in- 
volved in  the  Stormont  talks 
but  condemned  the  CLMC's 
ultimatum. 

Meanwhile,  in  a further 
sign  of  deteriorating  rela- 
tions, Protestant  and  Catholic 
mobs  dashed  in  north  Belfast 
last  night.  Police  said  foe 
skirmishes  followed  sectarian 
rioting  on  Sunday  when  mobs 
fought  with  hammers  and 
crowbars  and  threw  bricks. 


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“But  I was 
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The  Guardian  Tuesday  8 jgtte 


News  in  brief 


IRAQ  CRISIS/Dole  condemns  ‘novice’  Clinton  for  ignoring  Baghdad’s  warning  signals 


Iranian  ship  ‘taking 
arms  to  Libya’ 

AN  IRANIAN  ship  carrying  arms  and  explosives  in  contraven- 
tion of  United  Nations  sanctions  is  expected  to  arrive  in  Libya 
in  the  next  lew  days,  shipping  sources  and  Arab  diplomats  said 
yesterday-  Official  Libyan  or  Iranian  comment  was  not 
available. 

The  arms  embargo  was  imposed  for  Libya's  failure  to  hand 
over  two  men  suspected  of  the  Lockerbie  bombing. 

Shipping  sources  said  the  ship,  the  Iran  Ershad,  sailed 
around  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  rather  than  take  the  normal 
route  through  the  Suez  Canal,  thus  avoiding  inspection  by 
Egyptian  port  authorities. 

The  sources  bad  no  details  of  the  arms  the  ship  is  alleged  to  be 
carrying.  —Reuter. 

Sahrawis  threaten  force 

AN  INDIGENOUS  group  seeking  independence  for  Western  Sa- 
hara has  vowed  to  take  up  arms  against  Morocco  again  if  lie 
troubled  United  Nations  referendum  does  not  take  place,  the 
Algerian  daily  Le  Matin  reported  on  Sunday. 

If  the  vote  on  the  territory’s  status  is  cancelled,  “The  Sahrawl 
people  will  resume  combat  until  they  acquire  theimational 
sovereignty”,  said  Mohammed  Abdelaziz.  head  of  the  Pblisarlo 
Front  Tbe  threat  came  after  the  United  Nations  suspended  voter 
registration  and  reduced  its  observer  mission  monitoring  the 
five-year-old  ceasefire. 

Morocco  and  the  Polisario  fought  for  oontrol  of  the  territory, 
bordering  southern  Morocco,  after  Spain  left  in  1976.  The  UN  has 
been  trying  to  organise  a referendum  since  1991  but  has  been  held 
up  by  arguments  over  who  should  vote.  — AP.  Algiers. 

Second  tragedy  at  US  lake 

A REMOTE  South  Carolina  lake  where  a young  mother  drowned 
her  two  children  fo  1994  has  taken  the  lives  of  seven  mare  people. 

The  victims  had  driven  to  John  D.  Long  lake  near  Union  to  look 
at  a memorial  to  the  brothers  Michael,  aged  three,  and  Alex,  aged 
14  months,  who  died  when  Susan  Smith  rolled  her  car  into  the 
water.  The  group  parted  their  van  on  a boat  ramp  and  five  of  the 
adults  got  out  But  the  vehicle,  with  one  adult  and  four  children 
inside,  rolled  into  the  lake.  Angie  Phillips,  aged  22,  mother  of  three 
of  the  children,  and  Carl  White,  aged  29,  drowned  trying  to  rescue 
them. 

Mrs  Phillips's  husband.  Tim,  aged  26,  was  found  at  the  wbeeL 
The  gear  stick  was  in  neutral  position  but  police  do  not  suspect 
foul  play.  The  other  victims  were  the  Phillips'  three  children, 
aged  between  four  months  and  four  years,  and  a three-year-old 
boy-  — Ion  Katz,  New  York. 


‘Subversive’  Suu  Kyi  accused 

BURMA'S  military  junta  has  accused  tbe  opposition  National 
League  for  Democracy,  led  by  Aung  San  Suu  Kyi,  of  working  with 
exiled  “subversives’'  to  try  to  exert  pressure  on  die  government 
A military  intelligence  officer,  Colonel  Kyaw  Theta,  said  yes- 
terday that  seized  documents  showed  the  exiled  groups  intended 
to  work  with  the  NLD  “to  commit . . . subversive  acts  both  within 
and  without  the  country.”  Among  the  examples  cited  against  Ms 
Suu  Kyi  was  her  receipt  last  November  from  a group  of  Burmese 
exiles  in  India  of  a video  erf  fee  film  Beyond  Rangoon,  winch 
depicts  bloody  military  action  to  crush  the  democracy  movement 
in 1988. — Nkk  Cumrning-Brwe,  Bangkok. 


Gulf  giant 


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Martin  WaBser 
In  Washington 


MERICAN  forces 
in  the  Middle  East 
are  able  to  launch 
air  and  cruise  mis- 
strikes  against 
Iraq  without  reinforcement 
They  could  have  mounted  a 
Spirited  air  campaign  against 
Iraqi  armoured  brigades 
north  of  the  36th  parallel 
Their  failure  to  do  so  is  now 
the  main  target  of  Republican 
criticism  of  President  Clin- 
ton's response  to  the  crisis. 

“What  did  the  president 
know  and  when  did  he  know 
it?”  asked  John  Warner,  an 
influential  member  of  the 
Senate  armed  services  com- 
mittee. "Why  were  we  asleep 
at  the  switch?” 

“The  time  to  stop  these 
things  is  before  they  start,” 
Mr  Clinton's  Republican 
rival.  Bob  Dole,  added.  Stress- 
ing the  president's  lack  of 
military  background,  he  said: 
“Leaving  it  too  late,  not  pay- 
ing attention  — these  are  the 
hallmarks  of  the  novice.” 
There  is  no  shortage  of 
United  States  power  for  Mr 
Clinton  to  deploy.  There  are 
two  aircraft  carriers  within 
striking  distance  of  Iraq  — 
the  Carl  Vinson  in  the  Gulf, 
with  79  warplanes,  and  the 
Enterprise  in  the  eastern 
Mediterranean,  also  with  79 
F-18  and  F-14  fighter-bombers. 

The  carrier  task  forces  also 
have  Tomahawk  missiles, 
which  cost  81.1  million  each, 
but  are  highly  accurate  and  in- 
volve no  risk  to  American  life 
The  US  has  another  120 
warplanes  in  the  region,  half 
of  them  at  the  Saudi  Arabian 


Allied  strength 


The  aUes  command  a formidable  array  of  mffltaiy  might  in  fire 
Middle  East  The  US  has  23^HJ0  combat  troops  stationed 
permanently  in  the  Gulf  region.  With  Its  vast 
bases  with  pre-positioned  equipment  at 
al-KharJ,  Dhahran.  Bahrain,  Qatar 
and  Kuwait,  the  US  could  . -.■■j’.ii  SB? 

Increase  this 
number  to 
over  100.000 
within  a week, 


•Aircraft 


SixTomado 
fighter-bombers 

stationed  ax 

todrtk.  Another 
six  at  Dhahran.  i 
.equipped  wffli  ai 
lank  weapons, 
laser-guided  bombs 
and  anti-runway 
weapons.  In  aflihere 
are  70  aBied  aircraft  at 
todrtk. 


•Wrahip* 


Two  aircraft  carrier  group®  are 
fifths  area: 

USS  Cart'Vlnson  in  the  Quit 
USS  Enterprise  In  the 

eastern  Mediterranean. 

Both  are  armed  with 
Tomahawk  crutee  missiles. 

Total  {ftps:  20. 

bases  erf1  al-Kharj  and  Dhah- 
ran, and  the  rest  Incirlik  in 
Turkey  and  Azrak  in  Jordan. 

The  vast  Saudi  airbases  are 
the  key  to  the  entire  deploy- 
ment They  host  the  E-3  air- 
borne warning  and  control 
aircraft  (Awacs)  which  watch 
the  whole  Middle  East  and 


- Each  canter  has  79  strike  aircraft  on  board, 
mainly  F-13s  and  FI  4s.  In  addition  the  US 
has  aonte  120  warplanes  permanently  In 

the  region,  mainly  at  al-Kharj  and  Dhahran 
(60)  and  inckfik  and  Azrak  (60). 

Marina  amphfctous  assault  group  on  the 
carrier  groups.  Tanks  and  armour  in  Kuwait 


Rvb  Jaguars  based  at 
JnesSc  One  refiieftng 
tenter,  some  160 
personnel 


are  linked  to  computers  in  US 
intelligence  centres  at  Dhah- 
ran and  Bahrain. 

The  Saudi  bases  also  house 
the  U-2  spy  planes,  the  squad- 
ron of  F-117  “stealth"  fighter 
bombers,  and  the  KG-135  air- 
borne tankers,  without  which 
the  rest  of  the  force  would  not 


have  the  range  to  command 
the  air  throughout  the  region. 

With  the  US  Fifth  Fleet  base 
at  Bahrain,  tbe  cargo  ships  of 
military  supplies  at  Diego 
Garcia,  and  equipment  for  US 
armoured  brigades  in'  both 
Kuwait  and  Qatar,  the  Gulf  is 
a US  military  protectorate. 


British  jets 
on  alert 


f&chard  Norton-Taytor 


BRITISH  forces  in  the 
Middle  East  consist  of 
L2  Tornado  GR-1  fighter- 
bombers.  Six  are  based  at 
Incirlik  in  southern  Turkey 
as  part  of  the  70  United 
States,  British  and  French 
force  patrolling  the  north- 
ern Iraq  “no-fly  zone”,  es- 
tablished after  the  Gulf  war 
to  protect  Kurds. 

Six  Tornados  based  in 
Dhahran,  Saudi  Arabia, 
patrol  the  “no-fly  zone” 
protecting  the  predomi- 
nantly Shi'a  population  m 
southern  Iraq. 

The  Tornados  at  Incirlik 
are  equipped  with  laser- 
guided  bombs,  anti-armour 
cluster  bombs  and  JP-233 
bombs,  designed  to  attack 
airfields. 

Two  British  destroyers  — 
HMS  Exeter  anfi  HMS  York 
— patrol  the  Gulf  armed 
with  Sea  Dart  missiles  and 
torpedoes,  and  equipped, 
with  Lynx  helicopters. 

The  Ministry  of  Defence 
said  yesterday  that  allied 
aircraft  were  continuing  to 
patrol  northern  Iraq. 


The  current  23,500  Ameri- 
can military  personnnel  in 
the  Gulf  could  be  expanded  to 
100,000,  equipped  with  heavy 
artillery  an^  tanks,  within  a 

week. 

The  23,500  troops  comprise 

15.000  sailors  and  marines, 

4.000  airmen.  2.000  engineers 


and  logistics 


training.  . . _ _ . _ . 

JlteexMrfpSiw^bag 
led  the  Republicans  -to  cxs*. 
demn  Mr  Clinton  for  migrate, 
tag  the  early  Warnings  of 
Iraqi  troop  movements 

towards  the  38th  paraHeL 

“For  the  last  few.  weeks 
threat  of  Iraqi  intervention^ 

the  north  has  been  building, 
yet  the  admtaistxafiGQb^ 
delegated  the  pro Wem/to low- 
level  officials,  hoping  that  fe 
verbal  .warnings  would  suf- 
fice,” Mr  Dole  Said,  “it 
should  be  no  surprise  that  fije 
Iraqis  have  ignored  those 
barely  audible  warnings."  - - 

But  US  intelligence  sonnies 
said  yesterday  that  Iraq  tea 
moved  the  bulk  of. its  forces* 
night,  and  had  .shown,  great 
skill  in  using  camouflage  dur- 
ing the  Limited  (and  predict- 
able) 150-minute  spans  of  sat- 
ellite  surveillance. . 

The  national  security  couq- 
cil  was  told  last  Wednesday 
that  limited  troops  move- 
ments were  underway,  which 
looked  like  routine  rotation  of 
Iraqi  forces  near  the  Knrdish- 


As  late  as  Friday  US  intelli- 
gence was  reporting  no  more 
than  10,000  troops  on  tbe 
move,  and  had  upgraded  its 
expectations  to  “a  show  of 
force”  rather  than  the  ar- 
moured assault  by  three  div- 
isions that  occurred. 

Iraq  used  nightly  shuttles  of 
helicopters  to  bring  in  the 
lead  infantry  and  the  combat 
engineers  who  cleared  the 
mines  and  strengthened 
bridges  for  the  tank  advance. 


Ludaroommanti  page  8 


Blurred 
lines 
in  new 
order 


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".ill 


John  Gittings 


Four-year-old  Tyler  Bailey  firmly  clutches  fleece  in  the 
Mutton  Bustin'  event  at  the  Okeeshoebee  cattlemen’s  45th 
Annual  Labour  Day  Rodeo  in  Florida 


Cautious  peace  in  Philippines 

MUSLIM  rebels  and  the  Philippine  government  formally  signed  a 
peace  pact  yarterday  ending  24  years  of  war  in  the  south. 

But  Nur  Misuari,  the  chairman  of  the  Moro  National  Libera- 
tion FVont,  said  after  the  ceremony  at  the  presidential  palace  in 
Manila  that  more  war  would  be  inevitable  if  the  pact  foiled  to 
produce  concrete  benefits  for  the  Muslims  of  the  southern 
Philippines 

“Signing  the  agreement  is  one  thing ...  the  more  crucial  test, 
the  real  acid  test  will  be  in  the  tmpiernpntfng  pha»>,"  said  tbe 
former  university  professor  who  led  his  rebels  through  a 
war  with  Christians  which  killed  125,000,  most  ef  them  civil- 
ians. — Reuter,  Manila. 


Banda  aides  held  in  Malawi 

POLICE  in  Malawi  arrested  the  two  closest  associates  of  former 
president  Kamuzu  Banda  yesterday  cm  charges  of  attempted 
murder  and  conspiracy  to  murder,  state-run  radio  reported. 

John  Tembo,  who  was  Mr  Banda's  apparent  heir  as  leader  of 
the  opposition  Malawi  Congress  Party,  and  his  long-time  compan- 
ion Cecilia  Kadzamlra  were  arrested  on  charges  related  to  the 
shooting  of  an  Asian  shopkeeper,  the  radio  said.  A former  police 

officer  was  also  arrested.  Two  days  ago  police  arrested  another 

three  suspects  on  the  same  charges. 

Last  year  Mr  Banda  stood  trial  with  Mr  Tembo  and  Ms  Kadza- 
mira,  accused  of  ordering  the  assassination  of  four  opponents  in 
1983.  All  were  acquitted.  — Reuter,  Blamyre. 


IF  THE  United  States  and 
its  allies  take  action 
against  Iraq,  they  will  seek 
to  invoke  a ground-breaking 
United  Nations  resolution 
passed  in  1991. 

Resolution  688  condemned 
"the  repression  of  the  Iraqi  ci- 
vilian population",  particu- 
larly in  Kurdish  areas,  and 
called  on  Iraq  to  “immedi- 
ately end  repression". 

It  was  first  time  the  UN 
Security  Council  had  inter- 
vened strongly  on  a human 
rights  issue,  ignoring  the  tra- 
ditional view  that  this  would 
mean  interfering  with  a coun- 
try’s internal  affairs. 

The  resolution  does  not  let 
UN  members  act  to  enforce  it 
As  the  UN  "Blue  Book"  on 
relations  with  Iraq  notes,  it 
was  "not  adopted  under  Chap- 
ter 7 of  the  Charter”  (which 
allows  the  Security  Council  to 
take  action  “with  respect  to 
threats  to  the  peace"). 

Russia  and  China  felt  the 
resolution  threatened  to 
undermine  the  principle  of 
sovereignty.  They  agreed  to 
support  it  only  after  the  inser- 
tion of  a clause  referring  to  an 
earlier  part  of  the  Charter  — 
Article  2,  Paragraph  7. 

This  says  that  the  UN  may 
not  intervene  in  matters 
which  are  “essentially  the  ju- 
risdiction of  any  state"  — un- 
less Chapter  7 applies. 

If  the  US  takes  action 
against  Iraq,  it  can  only  in- 
voke Resolution  688  as  having 
some  ill-defined  moral  force. 
Iraq  will  argue  that  US  inter- 
vention contravenes  a key 
provision  of  the  Charter. 

The  passing  or  Resolution 
688  led  Britain  and  the  US  to 
create  two  "no-fly"  or  "exclu- 
sion" zones  in  Iraq,  which 
they  said  were  needed  to  en- 
force and  monitor  compliance 
with  the  resolution. 

The  Blue  Book  notes,  with- 
out endorsing,  the  coalition 


* SSferJ from  the  Kurdish  Democratic  Party  enters  Salahuddin  yesterday  with  artillery  taken  from  the  rival  Patriotic  Union  of  Kurdistan  after 
Saturday  s capture  of  Irbil-  The  KDP  seized  Irbil,  the  seat  of  the  Kurdish  government,  with  the  backing  of  Iraqi  troops  p«aro(w^abnH»i  azsucr 


countries'  claim  that  the 
ceasefire  agreement  which 
ended  the  Gulf  war  empow- 
ered them  to  Impose  such  con- 
trols on  Iraqi  military  flights. 

The  UN  also  registers  Iraq's 
objection.  Baghdad  says  the 
zones  were  not  adopted  mi  the 
basis  of  any  UN  resolution 
and  that  their  aim  is  to  inter- 
fere in  Iraq’s  internal  affairs 

In  October  1994.  when  Iraq 
massed  troops  near  the  Ku- 
waiti border,  the  Security 


Council  (in  Resolution  949) 
threatened  enforcement  action 
under  Chapter  7.  This  had 
nothing  to  do  with  the  no-fly 
zone:  it  stemmed  from  earlier 
resolutions,  passed  after  the 
Gulf  war,  which  lay  down 
terms  for  the  ceasefire. 

The  many  UN  resolutions 
on  Iraq  fell  into  three  bun- 
dles. First,  those  flowing  from 
the  ceasefire.  This  established 
UN  commissions  to  supervise 
the  elimination  of  Iraq's 


weapons  of  mass  destruction 
and  police  the  Iraq-Kuwait 
frontier. 

Second,  those  covering  the 
terms  on  which  UN  sanctions 
may  be  lifted  to  let  Iraq  sell  ofl 
and  buy  food  and  medicine. 

Third,  arrangements  for 
UN  relief  agencies,  based  on 

memorandums  of  under- 
standing with  Baghdad. 

Resolution  688  stands  alone, 
dipping  its  toe  in  the  unex- 
plored territory  of  interna- 


tional law.  Some  observers 
say  that  recent  events  in  Bos- 
nia, Somalia  and  elsewhere 
have  blurred  the  line  of 
national  sovereignty  which 
the  UN  did  not  previously 
cross. 

Others  argue  that  this  is  a 
dangerous  course:  it  would 
allow  any  member  state  — 
particularly  the  big  powers  — 
to  interfere  in  another  coun- 
try’s internal  affairs: 

Iran  has  deployed  a differ- 


ent aigmnent  to  justify  its 
military  support  for  the  Patri- 
otic Union  of  Kurdistan  — 
one  oT  two  warring  Kurdish 
flyrf-kima  in  northern  Iraq. 

Tehran  argues  that  Bagh- 
dadi inability  to  exercise 
“infective. control"  over  the 
north  entities  Iran  to  respond 
to  sabotage  launched  against 
it  fixmi  Kurdish  Iraq. 

Additional  research:  United 
Nations  Assodation-UK 


Collapse  of  opposition  unity  dismays  wary  exiles 


Inter-Kurdish  fighting  has  demolished  the  rickety  structure  of 
the  anti-Saddam  Iraqi  National  Congress,  writes  Ian  Black 


Paltrow  had  read  Sense  And 
Sensibility  and  Pride  And 
Prejudice  at  her  exclusive 
New  York  City  girls1  school, 
but  professes  to  have  been 
a much  bigger  Bronte  fan. 
Lesley  O'Toole 


Excited  Arabic  con- 
versations bubbled  out 
of  every  room  in  the 
plush  London  offices  of  the 
Iraqi  National  Congress 
yesterday  but  there  was  lit 
tie  good  news  from  Kurdi- 
stan and  no  optimism  about 
putting  Saddam  Hussein 
back  in  his  box. 

According  to  phone  and 
fax  messages  from  the  au- 
tonomous areas,  Iraqi  muk- 
habarat  secret  police 
rounded  up  officials  of  the 
opposition  INC  after  the 
Kurdish  Democratic  Party 
shattered  the  myth  of  unity 
by  teaming  up  with  Bagh- 
dad against  the  Patriotic 
Union  of  Kurdistan. 


Only  one  message  brought 
smiles  to  the  gloomy  faces  of 
Saddam's  exiled  enemies: 
Hero  Taiahani,  the  wife  of 
the  PUK  leader,  had  man- 
aged to  escape  into  friendly 
territory  in  Sulaymaniyah. 

“It’s  astonishing  that  the 
KDP  would  trust  Bagh- 
dad,*' one  official  said.  “But 
now  we  have  a major  politi- 
cal and  humanitarian  crisis 
on  our  hands  and  we  are 
very  restrained  in 
what  we  say.” 

“There  has  been  a serious 
shift  of  alliance  from  the 
INC  to  the  government,*’ 
admitted  Ahmed  Chalabi, 
the  sharp-tongued  former 
banker  who  has  beaded  the 


umbrella  organisation 
since  it  was  set  up  in  1992. 

President  Saddam's  ma- 
noeuvre has  demolished 
the  rickety  structure  of  the 
INC:  Massoud  Barzani,  the 
KDP  leader,  was  the  Kurd- 
ish representative  on  the 
INC's  three-member  presi- 
dential council.  The  KDP 
seats  in  the  National  As- 
sembly and  tiie  executive 
council  are  now  vacant  too. 

Looking  back  over  the 
last  year,  there  now  seems 
a grim  Inevitability  about 
this  disaster.  Opposition 
leaders  admit  their  weak- 
nesses but  say  the  United 
States  and  Britain  could 
and  should  have  done  much 


more  to  help  maintain  the 
autonomous  zone. 

Ironically,  US  diplomats 
and  INC  officials  met  In 
London  last  Friday  to  fix 
monitoring  arrangements 
for  the  intra-Kurdish  cease- 
fire, as  news  came  in  that 
President  Saddam's  tanks 
were  heading  north. 

“Points  of  disagreement 
were  very  limited  bat  noth- 
ing happened,”  said  Mr 
Chalabi.  “All  this  would 
have  been  avoided  if  the 
issue  had  been  treated  with 
more  seriousness. 

“But  I don't  blame  the 
Americans.  I blame  the 
Kurds  for  fighting.  I blame 
the  Iraqis  for  having  Sad- 
dam. After  all,  it’s  our 
country,  not  their  country. 
But  we  needed  help  and  the 
help  was  not  really  forth- 
coming at  the  level  that 


was  required-  We  are  Iraqis 
and  we  have  to  deal  with, 
our  own  problems.*’ 

Yet  the  INC  does  want 
Western  action:  extend  tbe 
northern  no-fly  zone  to  the 
whole  of  Iraq,  restrict  the 
movement  of  armoured 

Units  tO  arOUnd  Baghdad  — r 
and,  it  is  hoped,  encourage 
army  officers  to  rise . up 
against  President  Saddam. 
And,  the  INC  says,  the 
United  Nations  should  cre- 
ate a commission  tb  decide 
whether  President  Saddam 
is  guilty  of  war  crimes. 

The  INC  displayed  a grim 
calmness  yesterday  that 
contrasted  with  .statements 
about  KDP  “treachery"  em- 
anating from  the  INC’s 
British  supporters. 

The  KDP  and  the.  PUK 
have  both  worked  with 
Baghdad  when  it  seemed 


expedient  and  both  have 

been,  supported  by  Iran. 

So  Mb*  rihaiflW  took  the 
umg  view, pointing-  to  con-. 
« wiring  .Kurdish  support 
for  the  KDP  and  the  need  to 
salve,  the  problems  of  secu- 
rity and  revenue  that  cre- 
ated the  friction  between 
tbe  two  parties. 

The  INC  leader  rejected 
Iren's  suggestion  that  the 
US  turned  a blind  eye  to 
Baghdad  because  it  saw 
growing  Iranian  influence 
in  Kurdistan  as  the  greater 
evtL  - 

“If  no  action  iatakennow 
to  pnrfteh  .Saddam  for  his  . 
aggression  against  Irbil; 
-the  Iranians . will  surely 
come  In  and  embroil  north- 
ern Iraq  in  a very  serious, 


The  Guardian  Tuesday  September  3 1996 


The  people  of 
eastern  Sudan 
are  trying  to 
escape  famine. 

But  the  flight 
takes  them  into 
dangerous  land, 
and  there’s  no 
guarantee  of 
any  food  even 
if  they  do  make  it  to  Eritrea, 
writes  Andrew  Boyd  in  Barka 


Hunger and 
oppression 
force  Bejas 
over  border 


THE  border  between 
western  Eritrea  and 
north-eastern  Sudan  is 
marked  by  mountains 
as  shaii>  as  dragon’s  teeth. 
The  track  across  Is  a roller- 
coaster truck  ride  over  heaps 
of  rubble.  On  the  Eritrean 
side  are  sacks  of  sorghum: 
grain  to  make  bread:  On  the 
Sudanese  side  is  starvation. 

“All  of  my  people  are  starv- 
ing," shrugs  Mustapha  Jssa 
Omer.  He  used  to  be  a shep- 
herd. That  was  before  he  took 
two  bullets  while  escaping  a 
Sudanese  army  snatch  squad, 
contracted  gangrene  and  lost 
his  leg.  He  has  no  truck  to 
help  him  cross  the  border 
into  Eritrea:  he  makes  his 
way  on  crutches. 

Mr  Omer  is  one  of  around 
3 million  Beja  people.  He  is  in 
his  thirties  but  looks 
younger,  with  dark  doe  eyes 


which  glance  this  way  and 
that  and  avoid  my  gaze.  He 
was  picked  up  by  a roving  Su- 
danese army  press  gang  to 
fight  the  war  with  the  SPLA 
("Sudan  People's  Liberation 
Army)  in  the  south. 

When  he  tried  to  explain 
that  he  was  a shepherd  and 
not  a soldier,  that  he  had  el- 
derly parents,  a wife  and  chil- 
dren to  support,  they  threw 
him  into  a locked  compound 
with  their  other  new  “con- 
scripts'*. At  2am  he  found  a 
gap  in  the  wire  and  tried  to 
slip  through.  The  soldiers  saw 
him  and  shot  him  in  the  arm 
and  leg.  He  scrambled  under 
a thorny  shrub  and  spent  the 
next  day  hiding  there  as  the 
troops  continued  searching. 
At  night  he  called  out  to  a 
camel  driver,  who  took  him 
home. 

By  then  his  leg  had  turned 


gangrenous  and  had  to  be  am- 
putated. His  family  were 
afraid  to  take  a deserter  to 
hospital,  so  they  called  on  the 
services  of  a quack.  "The  op- 
eration cost  my  brother  five 
camels."  he  said,  clasping  the 
stump. 

Many  who  wearily  cross 
the  border  tell  of  enforced 
conscription,  of  being  denied 
food  and  medicine.  One  was 
thrown  in  jail  for  trying  to 
buy  sorghum. 

“The  government  of  Sudan 
wants  people  to  starve.  There 
is  a saying:  if  you  have  a dog. 
make  him  hungry  so  he  win 
follow  you."  said  Osser  Musa, 
a refugee. 

Others  who  try  to  sell  their 
goats  to  buy  grain  are  taxed 
so  highly  by  the  men  with 
white  beards  — the  Muslim 
Brothers  — that  they  can  af- 
ford to  buy  nothing. 


But  the  Beja  people  are  also 
Muslims.  And  they  claim  they 
are  being  driven  out  of  their 
country  by  the  radical  Islamic 
regime  in  Khartoum. 

They  spill  into  Eritrea, 
some  on  camel  and  some  on 
foot.  Many  have  swords 
strapped  to  their  backs  with 
splayed  ends  and  decorated 
with  strips  of  red  and  blue 
metal. 

Others  wear  combat  fatigues 
and  carry  Kalashnikovs. 
These  are  the  soldiers  of  the 
rebel  Beja  Congress  who  per- 
form hit  and  run  raids 
against  bridges  and  other  tar- 
gets in  Sudan.  Some  are  as 
young  as  12,  but  it  is  said  they 
are  still  only  being  trained  in 
the  art  of  the  Kalashnikov. 

The  leader  of  the  congress. 
Imam  Taha  Ahmed  Taha,  was 

declared  a' non-Muslim  after 
the  coup  which  brought  the 


National  Islamic  Front  to 
power  in  Sudan. 

Now,  flanked  by  congress 
troops,  the  exile  steals  back 
into  Sudan  to  inspire  his 
people  to  join  the  struggle. 
Villagers  flee  at  their  ap- 
proach, fearing  an  army 
snatch  squad. 

In  Barka,  a village  of  500 
families,  200  men  were 
snatched  by  the  army,  and  300 
people  have  died  of  malnutri- 
tion and  famine-related  dis- 
ease. Pale  old  men  cough  with 
tuberculosis.  Many  others  are 
sick. 

Word  has  got  out  that  there 
is  food  in  Eritrea.  But  Eritrea 
has  only  managed  to  provide 
enough  grain  to  feed  a few 
thousand.  A token  gesture. 

Tewelde  Tesfay  is  supervis- 
ing the  food  distribution  for 
the  Eritrean  Rehabilitation 
and  Refugee  Commission.  “If 


Refugee’s  dream  may  be 
nightmare  for  Izetbegovic 


A Serb  extremist  will 
benefit  if  Muslims 
return  home  to  vote, 

Julian  Borger 

in  Sarajevo  writes 

IF  ANYONE  crosses  Bos- 
nia’s ethnic  dividing  line 
to  vote  on  September  li 
it  will  be  Enver  Karic.  A 
Muslim  aged  48.  expelled 
from  Serb-controlled  terri- 
tory four  years  ago,  he  says 
no  intimidation  or  practi- 
cal hurdle  will  stop  him 
returning  to  Bratunac,  in 
eastern  Bosnia. 

“I  was  born  there.  Every- 
thing I owned  is  there  — 
land,  house,  family  grave- 
yard. I will  go  back  and  1 
will  vote  there,'*  he  said. 

Abont  400.000  Muslim 
refugees  of  voting  age  are 
in  the  same  position  as  Mr 
Karic.  Their  consuming  de- 
sire to  return  to  their  for- 
mer homes  in  the  49  per 
cent  of  the  country  as- 
signed to  the  Serbs  by  last 
year’s  Dayton  peace  pact  is 
the  only  significant  force 
holding  Bosnia  together. 

If  they  abandon  the  idea, 
ethnic  cleansing  will  hare 
succeeded.  But  their  deter- 
mination to  go  home  could 
also  threaten  the  political 
prospects  of  their  leaders. 

In  an  election  in  which 
where  you  vote  will  be  as 
important  as  who  you  vote 
for,  most  say  they  want  to 
remain  in  their  pre-war 
constituencies. 

Nearly  140,000  have  ap- 
plied to  -vote  by  absentee 
ballot.  Up  to  250.000  others 
could  pour  across  the  eth- 
nic boundary  on  election 
day  for  a symbolic  return 
and  the  hope  of  a snatched 


glance  of  their  old  homes, 
under  the  protection  of 
the  Nato-led  peacekeeping 
force,  I-For. 

“If  I go  to  Bratunac  to 
vote  when  I-For  are  there, 
it  will  make  it  easier  for  me 
to  go  back  later  to  my 
home.  1 know  the  local 
Serbs  there  and  I could  get 
in  contact  with  them,"  Mr 
Karic  said. 

Hie  plans  are  an  extraor- 
dinary victory  of  hope  over 

experience.  Serb  police  and 
nationalist  zealots  have 
persistently  organised  pro- 
tests to  prevent  such  visits. 
Mr  Karic  spent  two  years  in 
a Serb  prisoner  of  war 
camp,  which  left  him,  so 
physically  broken  he  had  a 
year  In  hospital. 

A mass  crossing  of  the 
ethnic  boundary  on  elec- 


A mass  crossing  of 
the  ethnic  border 
could  spark  many 
local  clashes 


tion  day  could  spark  innu- 
merable clashes  as  former 
Muslim  and  Serb  neigh- 
bours confront  each  other 
for  the  first  time  since  the 
war  began  in  1992. 

Nato  plans  to  channel 
these  cross-boundary  vot- 
ers into  a limited  number 
of  approved  routes,  to 
reduce  the  security  risk, 
even  though  this  represents 
a significant  limit  on  the 
right  to  free  movement. 

Most  election  analysts  be- 
lieve the  decision  last  week 
to  postpone  the  municipal 
elections  will  reduce  the  in- 
centive to  travel,  as  the 
election  of  representatives 
to  national  and  regional  as- 


semblies is  generally  seen 
as  a less  emotive  issue  than 
control  of  town  councils. 

"Without  the  municipal 
elections  the  numbers  who 
are  going  to  cross  are  going 
to  be  small  — perhaps  as 
low  as  30,000,"  said  Chris- 
topher Bennett,  an  analyst 
in  an  independent  monitor- 
ing organisation,  the  Inter- 
national Crisis  Group. 

There  Is  little  sign  of  an 
organised  effort  by  the 
Muslim  political  parties  to 
transport  voters  across  the 
line.  Mr  Karic.  for  example, 
has  no  Idea  how  he  will  get 
to  Bratunac. 

The  ruling  Muslim  party, 
the  SDA.  has  made  little  at- 
tempt to  influence  where 
its  supporters  vote,  expect- 
ing them,  perhaps,  to  regis- 
ter in  their  pre-war  homes 
and  villages. 

This  is  in  line  with  SDA 
principles  supporting  Bos- 
nia’s reunification,  but  it 
could  lose  the  party  crucial 
votes. 

The  election  rules  make 
the  -100,000  Muslims  regis- 
tered to  vote  in  the  Serb 
half  of  the  country,  the 
"Republika  Srpska”,  ineli- 
gible to  vote  for  presiden- 
tial candidates  standing  in 
the  Muslim -Croat  federa- 
tion. Of  the  estimated 
1,500,000  Muslim  voters, 
therefore,  400,000  will  not 
be  available  to  the  SDA’s 
presidential  candidate, 
Alija  Izetbegovic. 

If  the  Muslim  vote  is  fur- 
ther split  by  alternative  can- 
didates like  Haris  Silajdzic, 
the  former  prime  minister, 
Mr  Izetbegovic  could  be 
beaten  for  the  post  of  Bos- 
nia's first  post-war  head  of 
state  by  the  Serb  candidate, 
Momcilo  Krajisnik,  a fer- 
vent supporter  of  partition 
who  played  a leading  rule  in 
ethnic  cleansing- 


Last  of  the  Cali  cartel 
barons  gives  himself  up 


-WORLD  NEWS  7 

Cairo  seeks 
action  from 
Netanyahu 


all  the  people  come  from  east- 
ern Sudan  it  will  be  a disas- 
ter. Just  like  1985.  We  are  a 
poor  people.  We  can't  even 
feed  ourselves." 

Eritrea,  which  has  just 
stopped  receiving  food  aid  for 
its  own  people,  is  now  calling 
for  Western  aid  to  feed  the 
Sudanese. 

Meanwhile,  in  the  searing 
afternoon  sun.  Mr  Omer 
scrambles  up  with  the  aid  of 
his  crutches  and  wonders 
bow  he  will  carry  his  sack  of 
sorghum  back  across  the 
mountains  to  his  starving 
family  in  Sudan. 

• Two  people,  one  a woman, 
were  killed  and  seven  injured 
when  police  opened  fire  on  a 
crowd  diming  angry  demon- 
strations by  students  in  Khar- 
toum against  a bread  short- 
age, the  interior  ministry  said 
yesterday. 


Perek  Brown  In  Jemsate^T 

THE  PLO  leader, 
*®sse.r  Arafat,  said 
kst  mght  he  was  con- 
sidering seeking  in- 
!^,atlo°al  arbitration  to 

to?  dfwhlS  steadU*  worsen- 
ing differences  with  Israel. 

was  instantly 
rebuffed  by  a spokesman  for 
me  Israeli  prime  minister 
Binyanun  Netanyahu. 

Eariier  in  the  day  frenetic 
contacts  between  Israel  and 
toe  Palestinians  failed  to  set  a 
“ for  a meeting  of  the  two 
leaders.  But  m a mood  of 
deepening  crisis,  pressure  is 
mounting  inexorably  on  Is- 
rael to  make  concessions  and 
preyent  toe  unravelling  of  the 
1993  peace  accord. 

The  two  men  are  still  ex- 

Pitted  to  meet  this  week 

possibly  today  — even  though 
their  negotiators  remain 
sharply  divided  on  how  to 
repair  the  badly  faltering 
peace  process.  Among  the 
crucial  outstanding  issuer 
are: 

• The  timing  and  extent  of  Is- 
rael’s withdrawal  of  occupa- 
tion forces  from  the  flash- 
point West  Bank  city  of 
Hebron.  The  pull-back  should 
have  been  completed  in 
March  but  was  delayed,  first 
by  a wave  of  Islamist  suicide 
bombings  in  Israel  and  then 
by  the  election  of  the  Netan- 
yahu government. 

• Israel's  renewed  drive  to 
expand  Jewish  settlements  in 
the  occupied  territories.  Pal- 
estinians say  that  the  expan- 
sion plans  are  in  blatant  vio- 
lation of  the  peace  accord; 
Israel  claims  the  issue 
remains  to  be  discussed. 

• The  firmly  promised 
release  of  all  remaining  Pales- 
tinian women  prisoners  — 
about  25  in  all  — which  was 
vetoed  last  year  by  the  Israeli 
president,  Ezer  Weizman. 

• The  lifting  of  Israel's  par- 
tial ban  on  the  entry  of  tens  of 
thousands  of  Palestinian 
workers.  The  so-called  border 
closure  has  crippled  the  fi- 
nances of  the  self-rule  Pales- 
tinian Authority. 

In  a surprise  intervention 
yesterday,  Egypt  warned  Is- 
rael that  it  had  just  three 
weeks  to  implement  existing 
agreements  with  the  Palestin- 
ians. If  it  did  not  comply. 
Cairo  would  cancel  a key 
Middle  East  economic  confer- 


ence, scheduled  for  Novem- 
ber. The  stark  ultimatum 
angered  Israeli  officials.  Mr 
Netanyahu's  office  said  it  was 
“an  unfortunate  threat  which 
can  only  exacerbate  tensions 
in  the  region”. 

“We  don’t  want  promises. 
We  need  actions."  the  long- 
serving  Egyptian  ambassador 
to  Israel,  Mohammed  Bas- 
siouny,  said  in  support  of  the 
Palestinian  demands. 

Egypt  is  unlikely  to  wring 
such  wide-ranging  conces- 
sions from  the  hardline  gov- 
ernment of  Mr  Netanyahu. 
But  Israeli  negotiators  are 
said  to  be  moving  towards 
compromise  on  some  issues, 
including  a significant  relax- 
ation of  the  restrictions  on 
Palestinian  workers  — and 
the  long-awaited  first  meeting 
of  the  two  leaders. 

For  the  last  three  weeks  top 
Israeli  and  Palestinian  have 
conducted  discreet  talks  at 


Negotiators 
remain  divided  on 
howto  repair 
the  peace  process 


the  Tel  Aviv  home  of  Terje 
Larsen,  the  United  Nations 
co-ordinator  in  the  occupied 
territories. 

Mr  Larsen  was  a leading 
player  in  the  secret  negotia- 
tions which  brought  about 
the  Israel-PLO  peace  accord 
in  Oslo  in  1993.  Now  he  has 
resumed  his  intermediary 
role  as  relations  between  the 
‘peace  partners’  have  gravely 
deteriorated. 

The  new  round  of  hush- 
hush  diplomacy  has  produced 
contradictory  signals.  Ac- 
cording to  some  reports,  the 
Israelis  offered  cautious  con- 
cessions, including  an  addi- 
tional 10,000  entry  permits  for 
Palestinians.  The  PLO.  the 
reports  said,  was  prepared  to 
renegotiate  the  terms  of  the 
ultra-senstive  Israeli  rede- 
ployment in  Hebron,  where 
some  400  Jewish  settlers  live 
among  100.000  Palestinians. 

Another,  less  sanguine,  ver- 
sion of  the  talks  is  that  Mr 
Arafat  and  his  aides  are 
determined  to  hold  Israel  to 
every  word  of  the  commit- 
ments made  by  the  last 
government 


Rough  justice  for 
Rwanda’s  victims 


Maty  Martheson  in  Bogotfi 


Helmer  Herrera  of  Colombia's  Cali  cartel . accompanied  by 
his  lawyer,  voluntarily  surrenders  to  police 

his  black  hair  slicked  back, 
he  looked  more  like  an  adver- 
tising executive  than  a drug 
trafficker. 

He  is  the  last  of  seven  drug 
barons  on  a list  drawn  up  by 
Colombian  and  American 
officials  to  fall  into  the  hands 
of  the  authorities.  The  other 
six  were  arrested  in  a two- 
month  period  last  summer. 

Mr  Herrera,  aged  45.  is  one 
of  the  more  complex  charac- 
ters in  the  cartel.  He  is  known 
to  be  a bisexual  — one  of  his 
nicknames  is  la  nina  (the  girl) 


THE  last  of  the  Cali  cartel 
drug  barons  surren- 
dered peacefully  to  the 
Colombian  police  on  Sunday 
after  spending  more  than  a 
year  In  hiding. 

Helmer  Herrera,  allegedly 
fourth  in  toe  cartel  hierarchy, 
sat  waiting  for  the  police  in  a 
church  pew  on  the  outskirts 
of  Cali  with  two  lawyers  and 
a priest  Wearing  a navy-blue 
double-breasted  suit  and  with 


— and  is  said  to  have  spent 
part  of  his  time  on  the  run 
disguised  as  a woman. 

He  commands  fierce  per- 
sonal loyalty  from  his  follow- 
ers. a fact  the  police  believe 
helped  him  elude  them  for  so 
long.  Many  of  the  other 
bosses  were  betrayed  by 
henchmen  in  return  for  cash 
rewards. 

But  he  was  also  reportedly 
one  of  the  most  brutal  of  the 
leadership.  He  led  the  bloody 
clash  between  the  Cali  and 
Medellin  cartels  in  the  late 
1980s.  He  survived  two  assas- 
sination attempts  ordered  by 
the  Medellin  godfather  Pablo 
Escobar,  who  was  gunned 
down  by  the  police  in  1993. 

Mr  Herrera’s  fortune, 
wrapped  up  in  a complex  net- 
work of  front  companies,  is 
impossible  to  estimate.  But  he 
is  thought  to  be  one  of  toe 
richest  men  in  the  world 
along  with  colleagues  Gil- 
berts and  Miguel  Rodriguez 
Orejuela. 

Mr  Herrera  could  receive  a 
24-year  Jail  sentence  for  his 
crimes.  But  in  Colombia,  pris- 
oners receive  reductions  in 
sentences  for  surrendering, 
confessing  to  their  crimes, 
handing  in  ill-gained  posses- 
sions, informing  on  Others 
and  good  behaviour.  Some 
even  received  reductions  dur- 
ing the  Pope's  visit. 

These  considerations,  cou- 
pled with  the  pressure  of  the 
police  hunt  for  him,  may  have 
been  factors  which  prompted 
his  surrender. 

With  Mr  Herrera  now  be- 
hind bars,  the  Colombian  au- 
thorities hailed  the  demise  of 
the  Cali  cartel.  But  American 
drug  enforcement  authorities 
say  the  flow  of  cocaine  to  toe 
United  States  has  not  faltered. 
The  Cali  cartel  supplies  80  per 
cent  of  toe  world's  cocaine 
and  is  becoming  a major  sup- 
plier of  heroin  to  the  US. 


Chris  McGreal  in 

Kigali  reports  on  a 
law  which  means 
many  killers  will  be 
freed  after  five  years 

E\'EN  some  of  those  who 
agitated  most  rigorously 
for  Rwanda’s  new  geno- 
cide law  wonder  if  they  would 
not  be  better  off  without  it. 

People  who  survived  the 
Hutu  slaughter  of  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  Tutsis  in  1994 
wanted  the  legislation  to  rec- 
ognise the  enormity  of  the 
crime  by  severely  punishing 
all  the  killers.  Instead  they 
have  a law  many  consider  lit- 
tle better  than  an  amnesty, 
and  toe  dismaying  prospect  of 
their  tormentors  being  freed 
while  memories  of  the  geno- 
cide are  still  fresh. 

Critics  fear  the  trials  will 
be  for  show.  Most  of  the 
judges  have  never  heard  a 
case  before  and  most  of  the 
accused  will  not  have  defence 

^^international  tribunal 
for  Rwanda  — an  appendage 
of  the  Bosnia  war  crimes 
trials  — is  expected  to  begin 
hearing  its  first  three  cases  in 
Tanzania  later  this  month. 
Meanwhile  the  Kigali  govern- 
ment is  coping  with  more 
than  80,000  alleged  killers 
stuffed  into  its  prisons. 

Three  weeks  ago,  after 
months  of  dispute  and  many 
revisions,  parliament  passed 
the  controversial  law  under 
which  punishment  will  be  im- 
posed according  to  the  degree 
of  responsibility  and  admitted 
guilt 

Those  considered  to  have 
led  the  genocide  — politi- 
cians, soldiers,  even  the 
clergy  — face  the  death  penal- 
ty, as  do  the  most  enthusias- 
tic and  pitiless  killers. 

But  most  of  the  murderers 
will  serve  prison  terms. 
Some,  if  they  plead  guilty  and 
testify  against  others,  could 
be  free  in  five  years. 

Gerard  Gahima,  the  deputy 
justice  minister,  said  the  leg- 
islation recognised  that  be- 
cause so  many  people  were  in- 
volved in  the  killing 
significant  numbers  had  to  be 
encouraged  to  plea  bargain,  to 
reduce  pressure  on  a judicial 
system  only  just  getting  back 
on  its  feet  after  the  war. 

“This  genocide  touches  us 
alL  Before  there  can  be  recon- 
ciliation there  must  be 
trials,”  he  said.  "But  we  are 
not  looking  to  put  all  these 


people  on  trial  and  we  are  not 
looking  to  execute  them  alL 
We  are  hoping  that  most  will 
take  advantage  of  confession 
to  get  reduced  sentences, 
otherwise  it  will  take  decades 
to  deal  with  them  all. 

‘It's  difficult  for  any  of  the 
victims  to  understand  why  we 
should  be  considering 
reduced  sentences  when  no 
one  has  yet  confessed,  when 
the  killers  show  no  remorse. 
But  we  have  to  do  this.” 

Among  the  strongest  oppo- 
nents of  the  new  law  are  geno- 
cide survivors  in  parliament, 
such  as  Donatien  Rugema. 
who  held  up  passage  of  the 
legislation. 

‘These  penalties  for  geno- 
cide are  less  severe  than  for 
an  ordinary  murder."  said  Mr 
Rugema.  who  lost  most  of  his 
extended  family  in  the  killing. 

“If  these  people  had  commit- 
ted one  murder  under  old 
Rwandan  law  they  would  be 
executed.  But  if  they  killed 
their  neighbours,  murdered 
the  children  and  looted  houses 


The  penalties  for 
genocide  are  less 
severe  than  for  an 
ordinary  murder1 


during  the  genocide  they  will 
be  free  in  a few  years. 

"We  cannot  execute  ail]  the 
killers  bnt  they  should  be 
given  the  death  penalty  and  it 
should  be  for  the  courts  or 
the  president  to  commute  the 
sentences  of  those  who  co- 
operate.” 

Plea  bargains  are  also  a rec- 
ognition of  the  weakness  of 
many  of  the  cases. 

Often  the  only  witnesses 
are  the  killers  themselves. 
Charge  sheets  often  contain 
little  more  than  accusations 
by  a single  survivor.  Several 
thousand  prisoners  have  no 
files  at  all- 

Mr  Gahima  says  the  gov- 
ernment faced  difficulties 
reconstructing  the  judicial 
system  after  the  genocide. 

"Most  of  the  judges  and 
prosecutors  ran  away  or  were 
killed.  The  courtrooms  were 
destroyed  or  looted.  We  had  to 
train  people  and  we  had  no 
money.  We  had  to  do  it  all  in  a 
year." 

The  government  has  spent 
£12  million  of  foreign  aid 
rebuilding  the  system.  New 
roofs  adorn  once-gutted 
courts.  Judges  have  been 
recruited-  But  sceptics  say  it 
does  not  add  up  to  justice. 


V 

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7M»uardian 

Tuesday  September  3 1996 

Edition  Number  46,648 

119  Farringdon  Road,  London  EC1R  3ER 

Fax  No.  0171-8374530 

E-mail:  ietters@guardian.co.uk 

Website:  http://www.guardian.co.uk 


Sentencing  supergrasses 

The  Home  Secretary  has  got  it  wrong  . . . again 


WHICH  ON6-OF  Vou'S 

IVfE/KiHG  MV  p£cK£R-  * 


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SENTENCING  drug  dealers  to  18  years 
but  letting  them  out  after  three  is  a 
dangerous  new  approach  to  an  old 
trick.  But  who  would  have  thought 
Michael  Howard  — particularly  given 
his  Hardiinp  campaign  for  honesty  in 
sentencing  — would  have  fallen  for  it? 
There  is  a well  established  tradition  of 
offering  deals  to  underworld  figures 
who  are  ready  to  help  convict  their 
accomplices  — turning  Queen’s  evi- 
dence as  it  used  to  be  known  in  the 
trade.  Some,  like  Bertie  Smalls  (who 
helped  convict  26  associates  in  major 
robberies  22  years  ago)  were  able  to 
negotiate  complete  immunity  from 
prosecution.  Most  “supergrasses” 
receive  sentences  but  of  a lower  length. 
But  now  the  ultimate  cynical  deal  has 
been  exposed:  two  Liverpool  drugs  deal- 
ers who  were  given  18  years  were  freed 
by  Michael  Howard  after  three  years  on 
the  urging  of  the  trial  judge.  According 
to  the  Home  Secretary,  the  judge  felt 
unable  to  pass  a reduced  sentence  for 
fear  of  acknowledging  their  coopera- 
tion. endangering  their  lives,  and  jeop- 
ardising further  investigations. 

If  Michael  Howard’s  account  is  true, 
the  judge  has  erred  in  principle  and  in 
practice.  There  are  well  established 
witness  protection  programmes.  They 
were  imported  from  America  years  ago. 
They  are  expensive  — requiring  safe 
houses,  high  security  devices,  protec- 
tion officers  — but  they  have  been  used 
before.  But  the  deal  was  wrong  in 
principle  too.  There  could  hardly  be  a 
more  dishonest  example  of  sentencing. 
It  has  not  just  brought  shame  on  the 
criminal  justice  system  but  further 
eroded  its  most  important  underpin- 
ning: public  trust 

Should  Michael  Howard  have  gone 
along  with  the  deal?  Of  course  not  He 
should  have  known  he  would  be  found 
out  Is  he  right  in  suggesting  that  he 
had  no  other  option  — ignoring  the 
judge’s  advice  would  have  been  “incon- 


ceivable"? Of  course  not  Legal  cham- 
bers will  be  convulsed  by  such  wrig- 
gling. Michael  Howard  has  been  ignor- 
ing judicial  advice  from  the  moment  he 
was  over  promoted  to  Home  Secretary 
three  years  ago.  Ask  the  last  Lord  Chief 
Justice.  Ask  the  defence  counsel  who 
have  seen  him  extend  the  minium  tar- 
iffs which  judges  have  recommended. 
Was  the  Home  Secretary  right  to  try 
and  hush  up  his  decision?  Only  in  the 
cynical  sense  of  saving  himself  from 
extreme  embarrassment  This  was  an 
: exercise  in  self  interest,  not  public 
interest 

So  what  should  he  have  done?  Flayed 
straight  with  the  public.  If  the  two 
dealers  have  given  invaluable  informa- 
tion to  police  and  customs,  then  they  do 
deserve  a reduction  to  their  sentence 
although  not  as  large  as  they  got  But  it 
has  to  be  done  openly.  That  is  what  the 
criminal  justice  system  was  designed  to 
achieve:  justice  being  seen  to  be  done. 
That  means  using  safe  houses  for  infor- 
mants. It  means  testing  the  accuracy  of 
their  information.  And  it  means  ap- 
pointing senior  minders  to  supervise 
supergrasses.  None  of  this  seems  to 
have  been  done.  The  dangers  of  super- 
grasses  have  been  well  documented:  on 
one  hand  the  fallibility  of  the  police  in 
dealing  with  informants  and  their  abil- 
ity to  be  taken  in;  and  on  the  other  the 
tendency  of  informants  to  use  the  police 
to  settle  underworld  scores  and  their 
readiness  to  "turn”  detectives  rather 
than  be  turned  themselves.  That  is  why 
they  are  meant  to  have  experienced 
police  minders.  The  criminal  justice 
system  cannot  be  turned  into  an  open 
market  for  information  — particularly 
when  the  public  is  unable  to  guage  the 
quality  of  the  infonnation  provided.  It 
is  time  the  whole  process  was  tightened 
up,  made  more  accountable,  and  more 
public  The  current  deal  — to  use  an 
earlier  judicial  complaint  — just  pol- 
lutes the  system. 


i 


Lay  off  Labour  leaders 


Shame  on  politicians  who  want 
to  stigmatise  young  offenders 


A deafening  chorus  of  silence 

Don’t  blame  the  West  over  Iraq.  Blame  Kurdish  internal  disunity 


MIDDLE  EASTERN  minds  are  concen- 
trated powerfully  by  the  prospect  of 
outside  powers  barging  into  a delicate 
minefield.  The  chorus  of  silence  yester- 
day in  response  to  US  threats  of  air 
strikes  against  Iraq  was  deafening,  and 
a remarkable  solicitude  is  being  shown 
for  Baghdad's  sovereignty. 

Turkey,  while  calling  for  Saddam  to 
withdraw  from  the  north,  has  stressed 
its  support  for  Iraqi  territorial  integ- 
rity. Ankara  is  also  appealing  to  the  UN 
to  reverse  the  postponement  of  the  oil- 
for-food  plan.  There  is  a measure  of  self- 
interest  here,  for  a deal  which  would 
allow  oil  to  flow  through  a trans-Turk- 
ish pipeline,  but  also  a broader  anxiety 
for  an  area  of  great  security  concern  to 
Ankara.  Though  Jordan  has  reposi- 
tioned itself  at  a greater  distance  from 
Baghdad,  it  too  fears  the  knock-on  ef- 
fects of  intervention.  Lobbied  yesterday 
by  General  John  Shalikashvili  and  as- 
sistant secretary  of  state  Robert  Pelle- 
treau,  King  Hussein  made  sure  that  his 
reply  was  disseminated  by  the  official 
news  agency.  His  form  of  words  — that 
Jordan  supported  “the  brethren  Iraqi 
people  and  its  (Iraq's)  legitimate  sover- 
eignty rights  over  its  territory"  — was 
unequivocal  on  an  issue  which  could 
easily  have  been  fudged.  Egypt,  also 
visited  by  General  Shalikashvili,  has 
called  even-handedly  for  an  end  to 
bloodshed  in  Iraqi  Kurdistan  and  for 
respect  for  Iraqi  sovereign  rights.  The 
response  from  the  Gulf  States  has  been 
equally  low-key.  Saudi  television  man- 
aged to  report  a telephone  conversation 


between  Bill  Clinton  and  King  Fahd  on 
Sunday  without  even  confirming 
whether  they  had  discussed  Baghdad’s 
offensive.  Behind  this  lies  not  only  a 
disinclination  to  upset  the  Iraqi  apple- 
cart, but  an  equal  or  greater  mistrust  of 
the  intentions  of  Tehran  who  — it  is 
fUlly  understood  in  the  region  if  not 
further  afield  — was  the  first  to  join 
this  latest,  and  increasingly  murderous, 
round  of  the  tragic  Kurdish  game 

Mr  Clinton  remains  under  strong 
domestic  pressure  to  make  some  ges- 
ture comensurate  with  his  election 
claim  to  have  restored  American  inter- 
national self-respect  and  credibility. 
Saddam  Hussein  has  sent  Bob  Dole  a 
free  gift  which  the  Republican  candi- 
date has  no  scruples  in  grabbing  from 
the  air.  He  accuses  Mr  Clinton  of  leav- 
ing it  too  late  and  behaving  like  a 
novice.  The  charge  seems  unjustified: 
once  again  Saddam  moved  fast  and 
unexpectedly,  showing  skill  in  camou-. 
flage  which  is  freely  admitted  in  Wash- 
ington. Some  of  Saddam’s  soldiers  may 
well  be  sitting  in  Arbil  now,  quietly 
clad  in  civilian  clothes. 

Kurdish  internal  disunity  destroyed 
whatever  chance  there  may  have  been 
of  effective  Western  patronage.  This 
was  probably  always  very  slim.  The 
truth  is  that  the  Iraq-Iran  theatre  hag 
never  been  controllable  from  Washing- 
ton — hard  though  successive  presi- 
dents have  tried  over  several  decades.  If 
Mr  Clinton  fires  a few  Tomahawks,  or 
launches  some  F-18s,  his  main  targets 
will  be  at  home  on  the  campaign  trail 


I WONDER  whether  mem- 
bers of  the  party's  Irritant 
Tendency  ever  give  a 
thought  to  ordinary  Labour 
supporters  (Blair  urges  clean 
fight,  September  2)?  We  wake 
up  each  day  fearing  the  latest 
onslaught  on  the  leadership, 
not  from  the  Tories  or  the  tab- 
loids but  from  the  Shorts. 
Flynns  and  Mitchells.  Their 
ability  to  write  Brian  Ma- 
whinney’s  propaganda  from 
now  to  the  election  must 
make  Maurice  Saatchi  fear 
for  his  job. 

To  debate  policy  is  fine  and 
necessary;  to  attack  personal- 
ities with  sinister  and  unan- 
swerable slurs  like  “Kim  II 
Sung**  and  “dark  forces"  is 
either  daft  or  denotes  a more 
sinister  agenda.  TO  keep  sug- 
gesting that  the  media 
whipped  up  the  fuss  is  naive 
in  the  extreme.  What  did  they 
expect?  I begin  to  wonder  If 
they  prefer  being  big  fish  in 
an  Opposition  pool  It  would 
be  more  honest  to  join  Arthur 
Scar  gill  than  remain  In  the 
Labour  Party  as  a fifth 
column. 

I have  always  enjoyed  Aus- ' 
tin  Mitchell’s  witty,  informed  i 
debate.  Now  I have  the  im- 
pression of  a failed  comic 
whose  wit  like  Defoe’s,  has 


given  vision  to  his  enemies 
and  pain  to  his  friends. 

Alan  Halden. 

66  Laureate  Way, 

Heme!  Hempstead, 

Herts  HPl  3RU. 

SOD'S  Law  of  the  Labour 
Party  states  that  when- 
ever the  party  is  popular  with 
the  voters,  some  deranged  MP 
creates  a stir.  Such  politi- 
cians are  often  media  lovers 
and  have  safe  northern  seats. 

They  displace  energy  from 
the  major  problem  facing 
Labour,  namely  its  cultural 
powerlessness.  The  last  elec- 
tion saw  many  working-class 
voters  in  towns  like  Luton, 
Stevenage.  Harlow,  Corby 
and  Slough  voting 
Conservative. 

Most  people  below  35  could 
write  all  they  know  about 
social  democracy  and  the  wel- 
fare state  on  the  back  of  a 
stamp.  There  are  also  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  young, 
less  well  off  voters  who  have 
not  even  registered. 

Roy  Hattersley  and  Austin  j 
Mitchell  are  light  years  away 
from  these  voters.  The  whole 
purpose  of  Tory  soundbites 
and  tabloid  headlines  is  to 
reach  less  informed  C2s  who 
will  be  vulnerable  to  the  drip- 


drip.  daily  dose  of  anti- 
Labour  messages. 

Clare.  Tony  and  Austin 
have  failed  to  learn  from  four 
defeats  in  a row.  Their  dis- 
sent, coming  so  near  to  the 
next  election  and  with  so 
much  hostile  media  around, 
makes  one  question  their 
commitment  to  the  election  of : 
a government  that  just  might 
begin  to  break  the  rightwing 
cultural  and  political 
stranglehold  on  modem  Brit- 
ain. They  deserve  heavy  cen- 
sure from  their  colleagues. 
Peter  Carabine. 

New  England  Street 
St  Albans, 

Herts. 

I WANT  to  make  the 
following  points  to  Richard 
Burden,  Paul  Flynn,  Clare 
Short.  Austin  Mitchell  and 
any  others  with  the  arrogance 
to  believe  that  they  alone  em- 
body the  conscience  of  the 
Labour  Party. 

Please  will  you  stop  kicking 
Labour  Party  members  like 
myself  in  the  teeth  and  con- 
centrate on  getting  a Labour 
government  elected. 

Paul  Fantom. 

33  Park  Hill, 

Wedaesbury. 

W Midlands  WS10  ORH. 


Different  from  you  and  me  . . . 

But  not  so  very  different  The  lottery  rich  still  like  to  work 


SOME  AMAZEMENT  seems  to 
have  been  caused  by  the  discov- 
ery, through  a survey  conducted 
by  Camelot  that  more  than  half  of  the 
new  millionaires  created  by  them  actu- 
ally want  to  carry  on  working.  This 
conflicts  with  the  advice  apparently  of- 
fered by  Camelot's  own  Winners’  Advi- 
sory Team  that  most  people  in  their  po- 
sition want  to  give  up.  Is  it  really  such 
extraordinary  news?  In  an  age  where 
jobs  are  fewer  to  find  and  (we  are  al- ! 
ways  being  sternly  lectured)  not  avail- 
able “for  life”,  one  might  expect  most 
people  to  seize  the  chance  to  let  some- 
one else  take  over.  Yet  every  serious 
study  of  social  attitudes  towards  em- 
ployment has  always  shown  that  work 
is  not  only  enriching  but  essential  too. 
We  may  be  fulfilled  at  various  levels, 
but  to  do  a useful  job  of  work  satisfies  a 
very  basic  necessity.  From  the  age  of 
hunter-gatherers  onwards,  human  be- 
ings have  been  members  of  communi- 


ties where,  in  a very  literal  sense,  sur- 
vival depended  upon  shared  labour. 
Even  when  work  became  more  special- 
ised, it  was  still  seen  as  a “division  of 
labour"  in  the  interests  of  the  commu- 
nal effort  Work  has  been  around  from 
the  very  beginning.  Even  Creation  did 
not  just  happen:  it  was  the  Work  of  God. 

So  no  one  should  be  surprised  be- 
cause Mark  Lund  of  Doncaster,  after 
winning  £5.5  million  a year  ago,  has 
returned  to  work  and  invested  in  the 
company  which  employed  him  as  a la- 
bourer. Nor  that  one  in  five  of  new  lot- 
tery-created millionaires  are  still  in  the 
same  job  as  before.  Winning  the  lottery 
may  disprove  one-third  of  Voltaire's  as- 
sertion that  work  banishes  “those  three 
great  evils  — boredom,  vice  and  pov- 
erty." But  the  other  two  remain  valid. 
Though  no  longer  poor,  the  winner  may 
soon  find  life  incredibly  boring.  And 
only  a small  exposure  to  vice  would 
reveal  that  that  too,  can  be  pretty  dull. 


Not  sporting 

IT  MAY  be  that  Iain  Sproat 
will  repudiate  the  remarks 
attributed  to  him  in  your 
report  (Political  advice  sought 
in  bid.  for  sports  academy, 
August  29).  If  not,  your  read- 
ers may  wish  to  know  that 
• The  Sports  Council  in  its 
present  form  and  membership 
is  essentially  the  creation  of 
Iain  Sproat  who  has  presided 
over  its  affairs  since  spring 
1993.  So  any  imperfections  in 
its  performance  must  be  at 
least  partly  his  responsibility. 
• In  late  1993,  Mr  Sproat  over- 
turned a prior  decision  by  his 
predecessors  (Robert  Atkins 
and  Robert  Key)  to  create  a 
single  UK  body  dedicated  ex- 
clusively to  promoting  higher 
standards  of  sporting  excel- 
lence. His  alternative,  diluted, 
proposals  for  reforming  sports 
administration  announced  in 
1995  still  await  implementa- 
tion. Such  bureaucratic  delay, 
all  Mr  Sproat’s  responsibility, 
hardly  helps  British  sports- 
men and  women  to  prepare  for 
the  Sydney  Olympics. 

• If  there  is  to  be  a National 
Academy  of  Sport  (and  the 
jury  is  still  out  on  its  likely 
efficacy),jt  will  have  to  be  pri- 
marily funded  from  the 
National  Lottery.  However,  by 
law,  decisions  on  sport-related 
use  of  Lottery  funds  fall  to  the 
Sports  Council,  not  Mr  Sproat 
or  any  other  minister.  How 
his  reported  wish  “to  keep  the 
Council  officials  out  of  the 
process  as  far  as  possible” 
squares  with  the  legal  reality 
raises  interesting  Issues  of 
propriety. 

David  Pickup. 

(Director  General, 

Sports  Council  1988-93.) 

16  Sandfbrd  Road, 

Bromley,  Kent  BR2  9AL. 

THE  London  Arena  Rally  for 
I Revival  (Britain  attacked 
over  Islamist  rally,  August  30) 
is  only  the  latest  in  a string  of 
activities  here  by  such  danger- 
ous extremists.  Why  Is  there 
only  a fuss  when  governments 
complain?  In  Tower  Hamlets 
we  know  this  is  a problem 
that  has  been  building  for 
some  time.  Complaints  I have 
received  include  fly-posting  of 
anti-Semitic  statements  and  a 
pensioner  threatened  after 
taking  posters  down.  This  is 
not  a one-off  that  will  go  away. 
(Cllr)  Janet  Ludlow. 

Leader.  Tower  Hamlets 
Liberal  Democrats. 

Mulberry  Place, 

5 Clove  Crescent, 

London  EH  2BG. 

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Cracks  in  Crystal  Palace  plan 

OXFORD  suffers  appalling  j cross  up  to  11  lanes  of  trs 
traffic  congestion  and  pal-  A Large  area  will  be  cow 


Vy  traffic  congestion  and  pol- 
lution (Miniature  Crystal  Pal- 
ace is  under  threat,  August 
31).  Oxfordshire  County  traf- 
fic planners  would  like  to  pe- 
destrianise  the  central  shop- 
ping street  by  creating  a bus 
priority  system,  and  divert- 
ing car  traffic  onto  an  unoffi- 
cial inner  ring  road.  The  new 
four-lane  road  across  the  LMS 
site  is  to  facilitate  car  flow 
along  this  route. 

Unfortunately  there  are 
flaws  in  the  plan.  The  route  to 
the  railway  station  is  daily 
used  by  thousands  of  pedestri- 
ans who  will  be  forced  to 


cross  up  to  11  lanes  of  traffic. 
A large  area  will  be  covered 
in  Tarmac,  noise,  and  pollut- 
ing engines.  The  LMS  build- 
ing has  Grade  II*  listed 
status,  and  is  one  of  Oxford’s 
very  few  fine  non-university 
buildings.  We  would  like  it 
restored  and  made  a fitting 
gateway  to  Oxford  as  part  of  a 
direct  pedestrian  route.  Must 
this  building,  like  so  much  of 
our  valuable  heritage,  fall  in 
the  path  of  the  motor  car? 
(Cllr)  Sushila  DhalL 
Oxfordshire  County  Council 
Green  Group. 

County  Hall, 

Oxford  OXl  1ND. 


Gun  lover  is  an  easy  target 


MARY  Leigh’s  protesta- 
tions (Diary  of  a gun  club 
member,  August  28;  that 
shooting  is  an  innocent  pur- 
suit simply  do  not  hold  water. 
Home  Office  figures  for  19® 
show  that  75  per  cent  of  all 
gun  homicides  were  commit- 
ed  with  legally  held  weapons. 

The  analogy  that  males 
should  be  banned  because  of 
rapists  Is  also  deeply  flawed. 
Unlike  those  who  are  male, 
those  who  shoot  choose  to  own 
a weapon  that  is  designed  for 
killing.  The  sport  offers  no 
benefits  to  society.  Instead  it  i 
extrac  ts  a regular  toll  of  inno- 
cent lives  in  periodic 
massacres. 

Kevin  Woolley.  . 

Ramoyle,  Dunblane, 

Perthshire  FK15. 

MARY  LEIGH  speaks  vol- 
umes on  behalf  of  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  shoot- 
ers like  myself  who  have  been 
demonised  by  a hysterical 
press  in  the  aftermath  of  Dun- 
blane. The  right  answer  to 
firearms  legislation  can  never 
be  achieved  in  the  cauldron  of 
emotional  argument  I.  like 
Ms  Leigh,  await  the  objective 
judgement  of  Lord  Cullen’s 
inquiry. 

Graham  Downing. 

High  Street, 

Nayland, 

Suffolk  C06. 


THE  freedom  to  choose  be- 
i I tween  inanimate  or  living 
targets  seems  a distorted  cor- 
ner to  fight  so  vehemently. 
My  concerns  lie  more  with 
the  growing  availability  of 
firearms  and  their  relation  to 
violent  crime. 

Many  of  the  handguns 
which  find  their  way  onto  the 
streets  are  stolen.  Perhaps 
the  first  step  should  be  the 
storage  of  "recreational” 
handguns  in  areas  just  a little 
safer  than  the  average  semi 
AlexaBaracaia. 

Abbotsbury  Gardens, 

Eastcote,  Pinner, 

Middlesex  HAS. 

I WAS  undecided  about  the 
laiTpuhent  for  a ban  on  the 
ownership  of  handguns  but 
now  I have  read  Mary  Leigh's 
diary.  I am  convinced  that  a 
ban  is  the  right  way  forward. 

She  wholly  fails  to  offer  a 
convincing  answer  to  her 
own  question  — namely,  is 
there  a good  reason  for  any- 
one to  want  a handgun?  Are 
we  really  in  the  business  of 
risking  further  Dunblanes 
and  Hungerfords  in  order  to 
allow  Ms  Leigh  and  her  co- 
shooters to  relax  after  a hard 
day  at  the  office? 

Graham  James. 

Lam  bourne  Way, 

Thruxton,  Andover, 

Hants  SP11. 


PREDICTABLY.  Jack 
Straw  has  followed 
Michael  Howard's  lead  in 
calling  for  the  “reintegrative 
shaming”  of  persistent  juve- 
nile offenders  by  publicising 
their  identities  (Howard  may 
let  ‘ratboys’  be  named, 
September  2).  The  anonymity 
of  juvenile  defendants  has 
been  a central  tenet  of  Euro- 
pean and  American  youth- jus- 
tice systems  for  the  best  part 
of  this  century.  It  is  based 
upon  the  belief;  subsequently 
substantiated  by  research, 
that  such  stigmatisation  can 
consolidate  nascent  criminal 
careers. 

The  idea  of  “reintegrative 
shaming”,  currently  popular 
with  both  right  mid  left,  pre- : 
sumes  the  existence  of  a com- 
munity, reintegration  into 
which  will  be  desired  by  the 
young  malefactor  and  his  or 
her  family.  However,  since 
the  early  1980s,  youth  crime 
and  victimisation  have  been 
increasingly  concentrated  in 
certain  impoverished  neigh- 
bourhoods.: This  is;  a conse- 
quence of,  amongst  other 
things,  the  redistribution  of 
wealth  in  favour  of  the  al- 
ready prosperous,  long-term 
youth  unemployment,  irrele- 
vant and  ineffective  youth- 
training  programmes,  reduc- 
tions in  the  eligibility  for,  and 
value  of  state  benefits,  the  in- 
troduction of  market  mecha- 
nisms into  public  housing 
and  consequent  demographic 
change,  and  the  erosion  of  the 
capacity  of  local  authorities 
to  take  action  to  counter  these 
developments. 

NeighbourLiness  and  a 
sense  of  common  purpose 
have  been  supplanted  by  fear 
and  mutual  suspicion.  The 
revelation  of  the  identities  of 
the  culprits  will  come  as  no 
surprise  to  residents  in  these 
neighbourhoods  who,  rather 
than  wanting  a list  of  names, 
urgently  need  a solution  to 
the  progressive  ghettoisation 
of  which  serious  and  persis- 
tent youth  crime  is  both  a 
cause  and  a consequence. 

(Prof)  John  Pitts. 

Centre  for  the  Study  of  Crime 
and  Neighbourhood 
Reconstruction, 

University  of  Luton. 

Luton,  Beds  LUl  3JU. 

BEING  shamed  is  what 
children  who  are  loved 
and  want  to  please  might  res- 
pond to.  It  works  only  if  you 
feel  you  are  letting  down 
someone  who  cares  about 
you. 

It  would  be  quite  irrelevant 
for  boys  whose  experience 
from  an  early  age  was  of 
being  unwanted  and  unloved. 
Without  positive  experiences, 
these  children  grow  up  pro- 


A Country  Diary 


tecting  themselves  behind -a  ' 
wall  of  anger  and  with  a 
sistent  desire  to  fake,  damage 
ordestroy. 

Teenagers  who  are  short- 
term nuisances  trying  to 
“prove"  themselves  or  find 
excitement  present  a differ- 
ent, less  serious  problem.  If 
the  concern  is  to  make  a bet- 
ter, safer  society,  the  relevant 
research  should  be  read  and 
opinions  sought  from  preda- 
tion officers  and  others  who, 
care  about  the  child,  not  only 
his  unacceptable  behaviour. 

A few  might  warrant  custo- 
dial solutions  to  protect  met  - 
ety  but  all  need  help  with  the 
task  of  acquiring  a more  post 
live  image  of  themselves. 
Shaming  cannot 
Heather  Smith. 

6 The  Limes,  Spencer  Gate, 

St  Albans  AL14AT. 

Rantzen  retort' 

JANET  Parker,  whose. sey-1 
erely  disabled  son.  lives  ,a£ 
this  home,  complains  tfafrijont- 
ics  of  the  Rantzen  Report  (fet- 
ters, September  2)  misunder 
stood  its  purpose.  We  now 
learn  that  foe  programme  was 
not  an  attack  on  the  home,  but 
one  advancing  the  case  of  pa- 
tient advocacy.  That  was  what 
my  invitation  letter  'said  bn 
June  20;  but  the  fax  I received 
on  June  27  was  deariy  critical 
of  the  home.  When  ! first  read 
this  claim  by  Ms  Rantzen, 
repeated  by  MTsParker,  I had 
to  check  we  were  all  living  an 
foe  same  planet 
Ever  since  the  journalism 
was  accused  of  being  “sloppy, 
misleading  and  unfair'’,  Janet 
Parker  and  Ms  Rantzen  have 
attempted  to  rewrite; history. 
Wfry?  They  have  been  unable 
to  rebut  the  main  charge 
against  the  programme.  Quite 
simply,  they  got  it  wrongs  Ms 
Rantzen’s  team  used  a hidden 
camera  to  buttress  her  claim 
that  Ian's  needs-  were'  not 
being  met'  She  said : secret 
filming  showed  Ian  was  not 
taken  out  to  foe  annual  fete; 
but  a care  assistant  did  take 
him.  Furthermore  we  have 
photographs  of  him  attending 
various  functions  inside  and 
outside  the  home. 

Not  least  oEMrs  Parker’s  in- 
accuracies is  her  claim  that 
my  staff  do-  not  know  bow  to 
communicate  with  - her  son, 
who  cannot  speak.  They  know 
exactly  bow  to  interpret ‘his 
signs.  They  love  , him  dearly 
and  have  communicated  with 
him  every  day  for  five  years. 
NoeUeKeHy. 

Matron.  & House  Governor, 
British  Home  & Hospital ; - 
for  Irtcurables._  . 

Crown  Lane,  " 

London  SW168JB. 


THE  LAKE  DISTRICT;  My 
daughter-in-law's  attempt  to 
“collect"  Rough  Crag,  the 
only  one  of  the  11  Scafell  two- 
thousanders  she  had  not  yet 
visited,  failed  on  a miserable 
day  of  thick  cloud  and  rain. 
We  even  had  to  use  the  com- 
pass to  locate  Linemen  from 
the  Corridor  Route,  so  thick 
was  the  mist  and  from  foe 
top  of  the  steep  screes  down  to 
Little  Narrowcove  only  a few 
feet  erf  the  descent  could  be 
seen.  Really,  it  was  the 
thought  that  once  she  had 
collected  the  summit  — al- 
ways difficult- to  find  in  poor , 
weather  — she  would  have  to 
crawl  back  op  700  feet  of  scree 
to  rejoin  the  main  highway, 
from  Scafell  Pike  that 
tempted  her  to  leave.it  for 
another  day.  Next  time,  she 
will  try  It  from,  the  JSskdale  i 
side.  I remember  helping  my 
son  to  collect  these  summits 
from  Tarigdale,  more  than  20 

years  ago,  on  a similar  sort  of 
day.  We  left  our  rucksack  in 
the  carrie,  one  of  the  wildest" 
and  roughest  in  foe  country, 
before  collecting  Rough  Oag 
and  Pen,  one  of  my  favourite 
Lakeland  summits,  and  then 


had  foe  greatest  difficulty^ 
finding  them  again  in-  tbe 
clouds  among  the  pile4 
boulders  and  scree.  To  com- 
plete the  200  or  so  Lake  Dis- 
trict ' two- thousanders,  JOY-; 
daughter-in-law,  after  picking 
up  Rough  Crag,  has  to 
three  or  four  summits  m me 
Pillar  area,  Including  Steeple, 
missed  fa  thick  cloud  op  a. 
traverse  of  the  .Mosedale. 
Horseshoe  last'  month,  and 
then  finish,  off  with  PiDar- 
Rock,  ah  appropriate  ending 
to  a modest  achievement  ch 
which  a grandmother  can.be 
justly  proud.  My  sou,  who 
was  brought  up  on  crags  by 
his  father,  should  have  no 
difficulty ' in  gently  leading 
her,  roped  this  time,  up  fof 
road  which  I first  , climbed 
more  than.  66  years  ago.  1 can 
well  remember,  on  several  oc- 
casions, sitting  an  top  of  the- 
biggest  crag  in  England  aim 
looking  down  the  length  of 
Ennardale,  completely  ijareaf  - 

trees,  before  foe massive-  af- 
forestation that-  completely,  - 
and  hardly  .,  for  foe  better; 
changed  the  -appearance  of 
the  dale.  ^ 


The  Guardian  Tuesday  September  3 1996 

m 


Matthew  Norman 


A! 


FTER  an  increas- 
ingly frantic  series  of 
k messages,  the  Diary’s 
Youth  Culture  Correspon- 
dent finally  calls  back.  “It’s 
John  Redwood.*'  he  says, 
“my  office  said  It  was  ex- 
tremely urgent.”  It  is,  lex- 
plain.  The  Smurfs  have 
entered  the  singles  chart  at 
number  four  (with  I've  Got 
A Little  Puppy),  and  we 
need  his  analysis.  “Ah  yes. 
well,  I know  there’s  been  a 
lot  of  controversy,”  says  Mr 
Redwood,  referring  to  his 
beloved  Oasis's  refusal  to 
sanction  a Wonderwall 
cover,  “but  I’m  not  a great 
fan  myself.”  So  how  would 
you  explain  the  resurgence 
in  their  popularity. . . post- 
modern ironic  kitsch  or  the 
search  for  innocence?  “I  be- 
lieve in  freedom and  as 

long  as  the  Smurfs  are  doing 
nothing  illegal,”  — nothing 
illegal? — “that’s  fine  by 
me.”  Thank  you.  Finally, 
then,  what  are  your 
thoughts  on  the  acrimoni- 
ous split  with  Father  Abra- 
ham? “I  take  the  view  that 
if  the  original  artist  left 
them , that’s  his  business,” 
intones  Mr  Redwood 
gravely.  *Tm  sure  Father 
Abraham  knew  exactly 
what  he  was  doing.” 


THOSE  stem  moralists 
at  London  Undei> 
ground  maintain  their 
splendid  run  of  form.  Fresh 
from  banning  a picture 
showing  two  men  lying 
quietly’  in  bed,  and  telling  a 
charity  that  supplies  gay 
men  with  condoms  that  it 
couldn’t  use  the  words 
“gay”,  "sex"  or  “condom" 
in  its  advert.  London  Under- 
ground has  tried  to  stop  the 
soft  drink  firm  Red  Bull 
using  a poster.  The  com- 
pany felt  that  in  it,  the  jean 
was  deliberately  portrayed 
as  “a  throbbing  penis”. 
However.  LU  then  had  a 
rethink  and  lifted  the  ban, 
having  decided  that,  in  fact, 
it  resembles  a bullet  Who’d 
have  thought  these  people 
would  find  it  so  hard  to 
make  trains  run  on  time? 


THE  common  percep- 
tion of  store  security 
officers  as  the  intellec- 
tual also-rans  of  crime- 
fighting  takes  a ferocious 
battering  in  this  month's 
Police  magazine.  One 
guard,  so  the  Dogberry 
column  reports,  rang  police 
to  report  the  passing  of  a 
counterfeit  note  at  a chem- 
ist’s. Asked  for  the  shop's 
name,  the  security  man  said 
he’d  have  to  go  over  to  the 
window,  from  where  it  was 
visible,  and  read  the  letters 
out  one  by  one.  since  it  was 
a foreign  name.  “P-H-A-R”, 
he  went,  “M-A-C-Y.” 


Attempts  by  PhHip 
Morris  to  seduce  New 
Labour  appear  to 
have  been  stubbed  out.  Not 
long  after  paying  thousands 
of  pounds  into  election  cof- 
fers by  taking  a table  at  a 
Savoy  gala  dinner,  the  ciga- 
rette giant  invited  a num- 
ber of  Labour  MPs  to  the 
British  Grand  Prix  at  SU- 
verstone  (an  outing  worth 
about  £1 .000).  The  only  one 
courageous  enough  to  ac- 
cept was  Geoffrey  Robin- 
son. the  plutocratic  Coven- 
try MP  and  New  Statesman 
proprietor.  Mr  Robinson  is 
a very  powerful  ally,  since 
he  is  close  to  Tony  Blair,  his 
sometime  Italian  house 
guest,  and  closer  still  to 
Gordon  Brown.  However. 
Philip  Morris’s  pleasure 
was  short  lived:  Mr  Robin- 
son cancelled  at  the  last 
moment,  and  — a m aster- 
stroke  of  chutzpah,  this— 
sent  his  children  along  in- 
stead. What  a cheeky  fellow 
he  is! 

IN  the  Tatler  supplement 
At  Home  comes  a concep- 
tion of  the  perfect  dinner 
party,  with  dream  guests 
appearing  in  the  style  of  a 
Renoir  painting.  And  what 
an  eclectic  bunch  they  are. 

too Quentin  Tarantino 

and  Jarvis  Cocker.  Kate 
Winslet  (“Because  she's  the 
"If  girl’*)  and  Jimmy  Gold- 
smith, Prince  Charles  and 
Hugh  Gran tf “Because  we 
want  to  know  what  makes 
him  tick”).  But  who  is 
this,  wearing  a boating 
jacket  and  an  ingratiating 
grin?  Yes,  it’s  the  Cypriot 
Wine  waiterTaki-George: 
“Because  someone  has  to 
keep  the  champers 
flouring”.  


A MAN  in  Boston  has 
ki  lied  his  wife  after  a 
domestic  dispute. 

The  man.  who  is  unnamed 
for  legal  reasons,  took  a 
kitchen  knife,  slashed  her 
open,  tore  out  her  heart  and 
lungs  and  hung  them  out  on 
the  garden  railings,  after 
she  remarked  that  he  had 
overcooked  the  pasta. 


Union  future  is  in 
mutual  satisfaction 


COMMENT  AND  ANALYSIS  9 


Commentary 


Geoff 

Mulgan 


Y: 


ESTERDAY’S  Labor 
Day  holiday  in  the  US 
and  next  week's  TUC 
congress  in  Blackpool 
should  be  moments  for  trade 
unions  to  celebrate.  On  paper, 
everything  is  going  their  way. 
Public  confidence  in  manag- 
ers has  hit  bottom.  Everyone, 
from  civil  servants  to  assem- 
bly-line workers,  feels  inse- 
cure about  jobs,  and  workers 
are  so  fed  up  that  unions  are 
now  winning  three-quarters  of 
the  strike  ballots  they  hold. 

Instead,  there  will  be  few 
celebrations  in  Blackpool  In 
the  UK.  membership  has 
fallen  from  59  per  cent  of  the 
workforce  to  31  per  cent  and 
among  under- 25- year-olds  the 
figure  is  7 per  cent  The  union 
record  on  winning  better  pay 
and  protection  for  members 
has.  been  fairly  lamentable 
lately,  not  least  because  of  the 
predilection  of  some  unions  to 
walk  into  battles  they  were 
bound  to  lose. 

Their  traditional  tools  have 
become  at  best  blunt  — and  at 
worst  counter-productive  — in 


more  open  global  markets, 
and  especially  now  that  con- 
sumers of  public  services  are 
more  demanding.  Public  trust 
remains  low,  and  may  fall 
lower  if  the  postal  workers  re- 
fuse to  hold  a ballot 

But  the  biggest  problem  is 
that  there  has  been  so  little 
original  thought  about  what 
the  unions  might  become. 
Hardly  a day  goes  by  without 
a new  idea  about  what  tomor- 
row's company  should  look 
like.  Yet  among  the  unions, 
there  is  nothing  but  silence. 
The  best  they  can  offer  are 
new  restrictions  to  make  it 
harder  to  sack  people,  harder 
to  make  them  work  long 
hours,  and  harder  to  casualise 
staff.  It  is  as  if  all  they  have 
are  potential  new  spanners  in 
the  works  of  capitalism, 
rather  than  levers  to  make  its 
energies  work  for  their  mem- 
bers. 

Yet,  in  the  long  view,  the 
need  for  institutions  to  look 
after  people's  interests  at 
work  is  as  great  as  ever.  The 
world  of  work  seems  to  be 
returning  to  an  almost  pre-in- 
dustrial model  More  people 
are  working  on  shorter  con- 
tracts. In  smaller  plants  and 
offices,  and  with  less  security 
of  tenure.  More  people  are  suf- 
fering from  bad  treatment  and 
bad  pay.  Almost  no  one  ex- 
pects to  have  a job  for  life,  or 
even  very  much  security,  and 
few  expect  to  receive  much 
loyalty  from  their  employers, 
or  to  give  much  back. 


At  the  same  time,  the  rheto- 
ric of  politicians  and  business 
leaders  about  ‘‘empowering'' 
people  to  manage  their  own 
employability,  to  buy  Into 
portable  pensions  and  health 
plans,  leaves  people  cold.  Few 
people  are  psychologically 
ready  or  willing  to  be  left  en- 
tirely on  their  own,  negotiat- 
ing their  own  contracts  and 
continually  jumping  jobs. 

We  are  in  a position  pre- 
cisely parallel  to  that  of  150 
years  ago:  then  the  chaos  of 
the  Industrial  Revolution  left 
millions  unprotected  because 
the  did  institutions  — such  as 
the  guilds  — no  longer  could 
deal  with  the  daily  reality  of 
exploitation  in  the  great  mills 
and  mines.  The  unions  suc- 
cessfully emerged  as  an  insti- 
tutional solution,  a way  for 
people  to  bargain  collectively 
to  share  in  the  fruits  of  eco- 
nomic growth. 

Today  that  model  of  collec- 
tive bargaining  in  big  firms 
has  become  almost  as  redun- 
dant as  the  guilds  were  in  the 
Victorian  era.  The  trade 
unions  promise  security  but 
don't  deliver  it  and.  with  most 
jobs  being  created  in  services 
and  in  small  firms,  there  is  a 
desperate  need  for  a new  in- 
stitution on  the  side  of  the 
employee,  which  can  deliver 
real  benefits,  rather  than  fine 
words. 

What  follows  is  a sugges- 
tion as  to  what  that  institu- 
tion might  be.  We  could  call  it 
the  Employee  Mutual.  It 


would  be  an  organisation 
charged  with  organising, 
managing  and  selling  labour 
on  behalf  of  its  members,  but 
shaped  to  fit  the  reality  of  rap- 
idly changing  jobs  and  much 
smaller  firms.  A worker 
might  Join  it  when  young  and 
then  use  it  to  provide  a back- 
bone of  continuity  through  a 
career  which  might  include 
many  different  tasks  and  em- 
ployers. It  would  be  like  a 
trade  union,  tn  that  it  would 
negotiate  on  your  behalf,  al- 
though just  as  often  Individ- 
ually as  collectively.  But  it 
would  also  do  all  the  things 
that  the  very  best  employers 
should  do,  but  so  often  don't 
in  an  increasingly  casualised 
labour  market 
So,  as  well  as  taking  respon- 
sibility for  your  employabil- 
ity — your  qualifications  and 
experience  — it  would  also 
manage  pensions  and  health- 
care. holidays  and  time  off. 
and  perhaps  ensure  that  your 


The  trade  unions 
promise  security 
but  don’t  deliver  it. 
There  is  a need  for 
a new  institution 


time  out  of  work  was  used  as 
productively  as  possible. 

This  might  sound  like  a 
very  new  creature,  but  it 
would  be  more  of  a hybrid  of 
existing  types  of  organisa- 
tion. It  would  have  some  simi- 
larities to  Manpower,  which 
keeps  many  thousands  of 
people  on  its  books  and  then 
sells  firms  the  labour  of 
everyone  from  cleaners  to 
software  engineers.  The  EMs 
would  share  some  features 
with  professional  bodies,  like 
the  BMA.  which  provide  a 
point  of  continuity  through- 
out the  working  life,  as  well 
as  access  to  qualifications,  or 


Pressure  cooker 

Martin  Woollacott  on  Middle  East  problems  coming  to  the  boil 

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[HE  Middle  East  is  3 
region  chat  needs 
constant  manage- 
ment, care,  and  sr- 
tentioa.  Its  capacity 
to  slide  into  confrontation  is 
unrivalled.  Saddam's  outrs- 


whiie.  in  Saum  Arabia,  a cri- 
sis of  succession  and  of  pur- 
nose  aSicts  the  royal  regime. 
In  Iran,  zee  half-hidden 
struggle  between  various  fac- 
tions may  be  sharpening  as 
rite  end  of  RafSanjani's  time 


geo  us  strike  into  Iraqi  Kurd:-  j in  power  approaches, 
stan  is  only  one  of  a number  ; Two  causal  chains  link 


of  recent  developments  sug- 
gesting that  both  local  and 
outside  powers  are  in  danger 
of  losing  what  control  they 
have  in  the  past  exerted. 

A new  Israeli  government 
with  no  plan  or  vision  of 
peace  has  undermined  the 
Palestinian  arrangements 
that,  inadequate  though  they 


these  developments.  One 
leads  back  to  the  West  Bank, 
and  one  back  to  Kurdistan 
and  Iraq,  and  the  two  chains 
also  connect  with  one  an- 
other, as  Saddam  dramati- 
cally demonstrated  when  he 
attacked  Israel  during  the 
Gulf  war.  The  shifts  in  Israel 
the  West  Bank  and  Gaza, 


are  took  so  much  work  to  i Syria  and  Jordan  are  related 
while  Yasser  ; to  the  failure  to  achieve  a 
stable  settlement  in  the  West 


bring  about. 

Arafat's  quasi  state  is  rightly  . - — 4 

of  rn i sgovgracenl \ Bank  and  to  Israel  s refusal. 


accused 

which  Ihe^UrTted  Stales’  lav-  j contemplate  handing  over  the 
ished  so  much  attention,  has  > Golan  Heights. 

■■’one  into  a mode  of  military 
readiness  and  deep  suspicion 
of  any  and  ail  western 
l«raeii  suggestions.  . 

has  been  urn*:  bv  riots  which  . seems  to  want 

'royal  author-  station  at  some  nonexistent 

irv.  Ir-  Turkey,  a Muslim  nat- 
- nor 


and  corruption.;  Syria,  on  , under  its  new  government,  to 


The  Netanyahu  govern- 
ment is  incapable  of  forward 
and  • movement,  makes  offers  that 
Jordan  | can  only  be  refused,  and 
to  take  up 


mid-point  between  peace  and 
war.  It  ran  only  narrow  Ara- 


SS^W^ov^enL  : fat's  options,  deepen  h^un- 


— IniesmSier Guides  suffer  ‘popularity,  harden  him 
53  MW*  trouble.  ' against  ha  °wr.  hoerals,  and 


handicap  him  in  the  contest 
with  Hamas.  But  the  effects 
go  beyond  the  West  Bank  and 
the  obvious  stiffening  of  the 
Syrian  position.  In  Jordan, 
the  King  sweetened  his  own 
peace  agreement  with  Israel 
bv  forecasting  it  would  lead 
not  only  to  an  acceptable  deal 
for  Palestinians  in  the  West 
Bank  but  to  investment  and 
economic  growth  that  would 
change  the  lives  of  Jordani- 
ans on  the  East  Bank.  Instead 
of  the  promised  prosperity, 
Jordanians  face  increases  in 
the  price  of  bread  and  barley, 
hence  the  recent  riots. 

The  Kurdish-Iraq  chain  af- 
fects Turkey,  Iraq,  Iran,  and 
the  Gulf.  The  permanent  cri- 
sis that  is  Kurdistan  is  a criti- 
cal factor  in  Turkish  politics. 
Without  the  votes  of  many 
Turkish  Kurds  displaced  by 
war,  the  Refah  Party  might 
not  be  in  government.  More 
broadly,  all  politics  in  Turkey 
is  hostage  to  the  Kurdish 
question.  For  Iran,  as  this 
weekend  has  shown,  Kurdi- 
stan is  a perfect  theatre  in 
which  to  provoke  both  Iraq 
and  Turkey  and  to  challenge 
the  United  States. 

The  two  nodes  of  trouble 
have  this  in  common,  that 


they  both  represent  blocked 
movements  toward  settle- 
ment. We  only  have  to  ask 
what  the  situation  in  Middle 
Eastern  countries  would  be 
like  if  there  was  a democratic, 
federated  Iraq  on  the  one 
hand,  and  a respectable  Pales- 
tinian state  on  the  other,  to 
see  how  salutary  an  impact 
that  would  have  on  the  worry- 
ing situations  just  surveyed. 

Things  happen  in  the 
Middle  East  as  everywhere 
else,  by  accident  or  because 
of  a mainly  internal  evolution 
in  a particular  country.  Yet  it 
is  also  true  that  the  Middle 
East  is  a place  where  political 
forces  are  always  on  the 
watch  both  for  shifts  in  the 
leadership  or  policy  of  their 
neigh  hours  and  for  any  relax- 
ation in  surveillance  by  the 
outside  powers  which  have 
always  constituted  the  frame- 
work of  action  there.  They 
are  also  on  the  watch  for 
hesitation  and  fumbling  — for 
signs  that  big  plans  are  going 
wrong.  Saddam  may  be  the 
most  ruthless  opportunist, 
but  opportunism  is  a Middle 
Eastern  characteristic. 

A French  diplomat  once  de- 
scribed the  region  as  like  a 
stove  top  on  which  an  array 


with  co-operative  actors 
agencies  and  software  pro- 
grammers' co-operatives 
There  are  also  parallels  in 
blue-collar  work.  In  the  early 
1990s,  Instant  Muscle  acted  as 
a gaffer,  organising  gangs  of 
largely  unskilled  labourers, 
and  In  both  the  Netherlands 
and  several  Scandinavian 
countries,  employee  co-opera- 
tives have  been  used  as  a way 
of  fighting  unemployment 
There  is  even  such  a tradition 
in  the  trade  unions.  The 
GPMU,  for  example,  helps  em- 
ployers to  find  print  and 
graphics  workers. 

Despite  the  lack  of  a good 
legal  form  for  the  Employee 
Mutual  and  despite  the  lack 
of  tax  advantages,  each  of 
these  examples  shows  that 
there  is  a new  need  out  there, 
one  that  isn’t  being  met.  But 
for  the  unions  to  make  the 
transition  would  require 
nothing  less  than  a revolution 
in  their  structures  and  ethos. 

They  would  have  to  ac- 
knowledge that  all  of  the  cur- 
rent fashions  for  offering 
commercial  services,  like 
credit  cards,  are  at  best  mar- 
ginal to  their  main  role.  They 
would  have  to  bring  in  people 
far  more  attuned  to  the  intri- 
cacies of  the  labour  market. 
They  would  have  to  be  as  seri 
ous  about  skills  as  about  pay. 

But  if  they  could  make  the 
transition  to  become  Em- 
ployee Mutuals,  the  rewards 
would  be  enormous.  They 
would  be  in  a position  to 
shape  an  economy  that  is  in- 
creasingly based  on  human 
capital  rather  than  financial 

They  would  regain  the  pub- 
lic trust  by  offering  a real  al- 
ternative to  the  sense  of  pow- 
erlessness that  many  people 
feel  about  their  work  And  at 
a time  when  so  many  firms 
like  to  repeat  the  mantra  that 
their  greatest  asset  is  their 
people,  why  not  be  the  first 
organisations  to  mean  it? 


Geoff  Mulgan  is  director  of 
Demos.  Hugo  Young  is  away 


of  pots  and  pans  are  con- 
stantly coming  to  the  boil. 
The  principal  cook  in  this 
risky  kitchen  is,  of  course, 
the  United  States.  It  is  hard  to 
be  overly  severe,  because 
Middle  Eastern  countries  are 
neither  colonies  nor.  in  any 
full  sense,  clients,  and  they 
are  all  awkward  customers.  It 
Is  also  true  that,  without  the 
United  States,  neither  of  the 
two  processes  would  probably 
have  been  set  in  motion.  But 
American  inattention  and  a 
lack  of  forceful  decision-mak- 
ing at  critical  moments  have 
certainly  contributed  to 
today’s  problematic  scene. 

The  failure  to  overthrow 
Saddam  in  1991  was  a mistake 
that  could  have  been  set  right 
if  the  United  States  and  its 
European  allies  had  made  the 
right  moves.  Instead,  they  did 
enough  to  save  Kurdistan  but 
not  enough  to  sustain  it  with 
the  result  that  its  political 
movements,  which  run  on 
patronage,  fell  to  squabbling 
over  resources  in  a land  vir- 
tually without  revenues. 


T is  arguable,  too.  that 
the  West  backed  the 
least  effective  of  Sad- 
dam’s opponents  in  the 
broader  Iraqi  opposi- 
tion. While  direction  faltered 
over  Iraq,  a similar  thing  was 
happening  over  Israel  The 
forcefulness,  in  a pinch,  of  the 
Bush  administration  which, 
by  withholding  loan  guaran- 
tees. swung  Israeli  politics  on 
to  a new  track,  was  not 
repeated  by  its  successor. 

The  US  Secretary  of  State, 
Warren  Christopher,  toiled  to 
bring  about  a Syrian-Israeli 
peace.  But  Rabin  and  Feres 
were  not  pushed  hard 
enough,  while  Netanyahu 
was  allowed  to  get  away  with 
the  claim,  during  the  election 
campaign,  that  he  was  as 
good  a guardian  of  the  Ameri- 
can special  relationship  as  a 
Labour  leader.  An  American 
thumbs-down  might  have  lost 
him  the  election. 

One  of  the  unattractive  and 
counter-productive  aspects  of 
American  foreign  policy  has 
always  been  that  of  revenge. 
There  is  no  government  like 
that  of  the  United  States  for 
holding  a grudge.  Whether  or 
not  there  was  a moment  after 
the  Gulf  war  when  a limited 
reconciliation  could  have 
been  reached  with  Iran  is  a 
subject  of  argument 
But  if  there  was,  it  was  not 
taken,  and  the  difficult  policy 
of  “dual  containment”  has 
been  tbe  result  This  played 
an  unfortunate  part  in  deci- 
sion-making over  both  Iraq 
and  Israel  In  the  first  case,  it 
inhibited  any  decisions  that 
might  give  Iran  an  advantage 
in  a post-Saddam  Iraq.  In  the 
second,  it  inhibited  a hard 
hand  on  Israel  the  local  ally 
America  needed  against  Iran. 

The  Middle  East  is  large 
with  change.  Many  regimes 
are  calcified,  many  leaders, 
whether  good  or  bad,  elderly, 
ailing  or  otherwise  threat- 
ened. Among  these  are  Sad- 
dam himself,  Assad  in  Syria, 
tbe  older  royals  in  Saudi  Ara- 
bia. King  Hussein.  Rafsanjani 
in  Iran.  The  old  guard  in 
Israel  — In  the  shape  of  Rabin 
and  Peres  — is  already  gone. 
The  Kemalist  order  in  Turkey 
is  being  modified.  Popular  po- 
litical feeling  tends  to  focus 
on  new  and  sometimes  clan- 
destine, radical  and  Islamist 
movements. 

The  element  of  uncertainty 
is  growing,  and  the  blocked 
processes  of  settlement  In  the 
West  Bank  and  Iraq  add  to 
that  uncertainty.  The  block- 
age tends  to  encourage  risk- 
taking, and  to  fragment  the 
patchwork  of  deals  and  politi- 
cal arrangements  which 
keeps  an  imperfect  peace.  The 
world  is  faltering  in  face  of 
this  worrying  regression. 


There*s  no 
such  thing  as  a 
tree  windfall 


Ian  Aitken 


I KNOW  a woman  erf  admi- 
rable strength  of  character 
who  succeeded  in  giving 
up  smoking  some  25  years  ago 
only  by  promising  herself  that 
she  would  spend  the  money 
she  saved  on  all  kinds  of  plea- 
surable  indulgences.  She  has 
had  a whale  of  a time  ever 
since  spending  what  she 
charmingly  calls  “my  Not 
Smoking  money”. 

Both  she  and  her  many 
friends  are  perfectly  well 
aware  that  she  would  have 
needed  to  hare  smoked  noth- 
ing but  the  finest  Havana  ci- 
gars during  every  waking 
minute  of  the  25  years  to  ac- 
count for  her  actual  expendi- 
ture. Yet  no  one  criticises  her 
for  a piece  of  innocent  self- 
deception;  it  was  a jolly  good 
way  of  giving  up  a noxious 
habit,  and  it  may  well  have 
added  a decade  or  so  to  a long, 
active  and  exceptionally  use- 
ful life. 

But  I couldn't  help  thinking 
of  her  little  trick  when  Gordon 
Brown  first  announced  his 
plan  for  a one-off  "windfall 
tax”  on  the  excess  profits  of 
the  privatised  utilities  as  a 
means  of  financing  large-scale 
job  creation.  The  wheeze 
looked  suspiciously  like  Gor- 
don's Not  Smoking  money, 
wherewith  an  endless  pro- 
gramme of  good  works  could 
be  paid  for  out  of  a sadly  finite 
sum  of  revenue. 

Of  course.  Mr  Brown  insists 
that  this  is  a misrepresenta- 
tion. He  argues  that  the 
money  he  intends  to  take  from 
the  fot  cats  of  the  gas.  water 
and  electricity  companies  will 
provide  only  the  initial  impe- 
tus — the  kick-start,  one 
might  call  it  — for  getting 
people  back  to  work.  There- 
after. the  programme  is  to  be 
financed  from  the  dole  money 
that  won't  have  to  be  paid  out 
plus  the  extra  revenue  gener- 
ated by  tbe  taxes  which  the 
newly  re-employed  workers 
will  pay. 

The  argument  has  a certain 
beauty  — and  not  just  because 
fining  people  like  the  dreadful 
Cedric  Brown  will  be  popular 
with  voters.  It  is  also  inter- 
nally satisfying  in  the  way 
that  a mathematical  proof  can 
be  satisfying,  because  it  all 
hangs  together  so  logically. 
What  is  more,  we'll  be  getting 
what  we  want  without  having 
to  pay  a penny  more  in  tax. 

Of  course,  in  the  real  world 
this  sort  of  immaculate  logic 
has  a habit  of  slipping.  Sup- 
posing the  windfall  tax  doesn't 
immediately  generate  suffi- 
cient new  jobs  to  deliver  the 
promised  extra  revenue  — 
what  happens  then0  Will  the 
scheme  be  abandoned  for 
want  of  funds?  Or  will  the 
taxpayer  be  asked  to  stump  up 


the  difference,  on  the  basis  of 
a promise  that  everything  will 
come  right  next  time  around? 
If  so,  what  about  that  pledge  of 
“no  extra  taxes  — even  on  the 
wealthiest”  which  Tony  Blair 
seemed  to  be  repeating  at  the 
weekend? 

But  now  the  Government 
Itself  is  stepping  in  to  provide 
same  extra  slippage  of  its  own. 
Ministers  are  trying  to  "per- 
suade" the  privatised  utility 
companies  to  get  rid  of  those 
excess  profits  by  the  simple 
expedient  of  giving  tbe  money 
back  to  the  customers.  They 
believe  this  will  deliver  a 
double  whammy  by  contribut- 
ing to  the  feelgood  factor 
while  simultaneously  spirit- 
ing away  the  crock  of  gold 
which  is  central  to  Labour's 
economic  policy.  Tbe  Govern- 
ment’s reasoning  is  just  as 
logical  as  Mr  Brown's  — no 
excess  profits,  no  windfall  tax; 
no  windfall  tax,  no  policy. 

Interviewed  yesterday,  Mr 
Brown  seemed  to  imply  that 
even  if  the  crock  of  gold  hgd 
been  dissipated,  he  would  still 
go  ahead  with  his  windfall  tax 
regardless.  But  this  may  not 
look  either  fair  or  practical 
when  the  moment  for  action 
finally  arrives.  So  perhaps  a 
better  idea  might  be  to  rely  on 
extracting  some  of  the  money 
from  the  fat  cats  themselves, 
by  way  of  the  kind  cf  tax  on 
the  very  rich  which  Tony 
Blair  seemed  to  be  ruling  out 
on  Sunday. 

To  borrow  a famous  phrase 
from  a great  man,  I have  a 
dream.  It  is  that  some  day  I 
will  see  a Labour  Party  politi- 
cal broadcast  which  begins  in 
eerie  silence,  accompanied  by 
a sequence  of  film  clips  show- 
ing heaps  of  rubbish  littering 
squalid  city  streets,  clusters  of 
dossers  sleeping  in  doorways, 
queues  of  homeless  teenagers 
waiting  for  a handout,  empty 
factories  standing  derelict  in 
deserted  wastelands,  train 
passengers  waiting  for  trains 
that  don't  come,  OAPs  limping 
past  boarded-up  hospitals  on 
their  aluminium  sticks.  Then, 
finally,  a sepulchral  voiceover 
(Gordon  Brown's,  perhaps) 
breaks  the  silence  to  ask:  “All 
of  this  has  got  to  stop,  hasn't 
it?  But  if  you  agree,  you  must 
also  agree  that  it  can't  be 
changed  by  good  intentions 
alone.  It  will  cost  money  — 
taxpayers'  money.  That  is  why 
Labour  says,  yes.  if  we  are  to 
have  a Britain  free  of  these 
evils,  then  there  must  be  mod- 
est increases  in  taxation  for 
all  but  the  poorest  among  us. 
That  is  the  truth,  and  we  all 
know  it" 

Instead,  it  looks  as  if  1 am 
going  to  see  broadcasts  which 
show  us  the  film  clips,  but 
leave  out  the  message.  I fear 
we  are  going  to  be  asked  to  put 
our  faith  in  Gordon's  Not 
Smoking  money  after  alL 

PS.  Is  Comrade  Blair  aware 
that  the  term  "social  demo- 
crat" dates  from  HM  Hynd- 
man’s  Social  Democratic  Fed- 
eration of  1881.  a Marxist 
forerunner  of  the  Communist 
Party  of  Great  Britain?  Maybe 
he  should  settle  for  John  Pres- 
cott's preferred  description, 
“democratic  socialist”.  It's 
safer. 


Good-bye 

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The  Guardian  Tuesday  September  3 1996 


Brother  Adam 


Secrets  of 


the  hive 


ROTHER  Adam, 
who  has  died  at  the 
. age  of  98,  was  once 
[described  as  the 
Einstein  of  bee- 
keeping- A Benedictine  monk, 
he  had  been  in  charge  of  bee- 
keeping at  Buckfast  Abbey  in 
Devon  since  1919,  having  been 
made  a beekeeper  there  two 
years  earlier.  He  achieved 
world  fame  as  the  breeder  of 
the  Buckfast  superbee,  for 
which  he  combed  the  Medi- 
terranean countries  and  Af- 
rica in  his  search  for  suitable 
genetic  material 
The  bee  combined  all  the 
qualities  most  sought  by  bee- 
keepers: a reluctance  to 
swarm  or  sting  and,  when 
managed  in  the  right  way,  an 
ability  to  produce  large  quan- 
tities of  surplus  honey. 

Yesterday,  Joe  M Graham, 
editor  of  the  American  Bee 
Journal  the  largest  and  best- 
known  magazine  in  the  field 
in  the  US,  described  Brother 
Adam  as  a source  of  inspira- 
tion whose  work  and  wisdom 
spanned  two  generations  of 
beekepers  in  America, 

Born  in  Germany  as  Adam 
Kehrle,  Brother  Adam 
enteral  Buckfast  Abbey  at  the 
age  of  11.  His  reputation  was 
already  growing  when  in  the 
1920s  he  became  Involved  in 
the  Ministry  of  Agriculture’s 
re-stocking  scheme,  following 
the  ravages  of  the  so-called 
Isle  of  Wight  Disease,  which 
wiped  out  almost  every  bee 
colony  in  Britain,  including 
those  of  the  native  British 
Black  Bee. 

The  fame  of  the  young  Ger- 
man monk  quickly  became 


widespread.  In  the  early  1930s 
he  addressed  the  Scottish  Bee- 
keepers’ Association  at  Kil- 
marnock on  heather  honey 
production.  Later  he  was  in- 
vited to  speak  at  Cardiff  and 
Newcastle.  Production  of  the 
highly  sought-after  heather 
honey  was  one  of  Brother  Ad- 
am's specialities  and  his  lec- 
tures led  to  ihe  first  of  many 
publications  which  later  be- 
came standard  beekeeping 
works.  Possibly  the  best- 
known  was  Beekeeping  at 


He  was  carried, 
strapped  in  a cane 
chair,  on  an 
expedition  to 
Kilimanjaro  in 
search  of  one  bee 


Buckfast  Abbey,  which  ap- 
peared first  in  a German-lan- 
guage edition 

Brother  Adam's  Buckfast 
Bee,  which  earned  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  pounds  for  the 
Abbey  in  reproduction  royal- 
ties, revolutionised  honey 
production  around  the  world. 
But  Adam’s  work,  which 
could  have  pioneered  further 
improvements,  came  to  a halt 
in  1992  following  an  acrimoni- 
ous difference  with  the  newly- 
elected  Abbot  of  Buckfast,  the 
Rt  Rev  David  Charlesworth. 

At  the  time,  the  superbee's 
resistance  to  the  disease  Acar- 
ine  had  already  been  academi- 


Ljuba Welitsch 


A Salome 


coached 


by  Strauss 


Ljuba  Welitsch,  who 
has  died  aged  83,  was 
one  of  the  greatest 
opera  singers  to  reach 
international  fame  immedi- 
ately after  the  second  world 
war.  When  the  Vienna  State 
Opera  gave  Its  first  guest  sea- 
son at  Covent  Garden  in  1947, 
London  heard  Schwarzkopf, 
Jurinac  and  Kunz  for  the  first 
time,  but  for  many  it  was  We- 
litsch who  made  the  greatest 
impact,  as  Donna  Anna  in 
Don  Giovanni,  and  the  title 
role  in  Strauss's  Salome,  her 
most  famous  interpretation. 
“Who  will  ever  forget  the  first 
Salome ?"  wrote  Harold 
Rosenthal  ■'Running  down  a 
ramp  &om  the  side  of  the 
stage  came  a striking  figure 
with  flaming  red  hair  who  al- 
most before  she  had  sung  a 
note  had  the  audience  in  the 
palm  of  her  hand.'' 

Born  in  Borissovo,  Bul- 
garia, her  real  name  was  Ve- 
Zickova.  She  had  originally  in- 
tended to  become  a violinist 
then  went  to  Sofia  University 
to  study  religious  philosophy, 
in  which  she  eventually 
gained  a PhD.  Welitsch  aban- 
doned her  academic  career  in 
flavour  of  singing  lessons  and 
made  her  debut  in  Sofia  in 
1936  with  a small  role  in  Char- 
pentier's  Louise.  The 
following  year  she  was  en- 
gaged by  the  opera  manage- 
ment at  Graz,  where  she  sang 
for  three  years,  her  roles  in- 
cluding Mozart's  Fiordiligi 
and  Cherubino,  Puccini's 
Manon,  Mimi,  Butterfly,  and 
Hansel  in  Humperdink's 
opera.  During  the  war  she 
sang  in  Hamburg  and  Mu- 
nich. and  was  engaged  as  a 
guest  in  Vienna,  where 
Strauss  heard  her  sing  the 


Jackdaw 


Man-trap 


SALUTING  Device  James  C. 
Boyle,  Patented  March  10, 1896. 
Be  it  known  that  L Janies  C 
Boyle,  of  Spokane,  in  the  State 
of  Washington,  have  Invented 
a new  and  Improved  Saluting 
Device.  This  invention  relates 
toa  novel  device  for  automati- 
cally effecting  polite  saluta- 
tions by  the  elevation  and  rota- 
tion of  the  hat  on  the  head  of 
the  saluting  party  when  said 
person  bows  to  the  person  or 
persons  saluted,  die  actuation 
of  the  hat  being  produced  by 
mechanism  therein  and  with- 
out the  use  of  the  hands  in  any 
manner.  The  improvement  is 
also  available  as  a unique  and 
attractive  advertising  me- 


dium, and  may  be  employed 

for  such  a purpose. 

Man -Catching  Tank.  Stanley 
Valinski.  Patented  September 
27, 1921.  Be  it  known  that  I, 
Stanley  Valinski,  residing  at 
Homestead,  in  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania,  have  Invented 
certain  new  and  useful  im- 
provements in  Man -Catching 
Tanks.  This  invention  relates 
to  a man-catching  tank  and  it  is 
especially,  although  not  neces- 
sarily. designed  for  use  in 
banks  for  catching  burglars 
the  like.  The  principal  ob- 
ject of  die  invention  is  to  pro- 
vide a device  of  this  class  em- 
bodying a portable  motor- 
driven  armoured  tank  nr 
watch-box  for  the  watchman, 
this  box  being  equipped  with 
peep-holes,  gun-openings  and 
other  conveniences,  and  hav- 
ing on  its  exterior  novel  means 
for  grabbing  and  holding  the 
thief  until  assistance  arrives. 
Maybe  the  answer  to  Mtdutel 
Howard's  prayers.  Found  at  col- 
litz.com/sUe/wacky.fitm.  More 
samples  tomorrow. 


Pained  heart 


THERE  IS  an  old  R&B.  song 
that  goes  Td  rather  be  blind, 


cally  certified,  and  Brother 
Adam  had  begun  prepara- 
tions towards  the  develop- 
ment of  a bee  with  geneti- 
cally-based resistance  to 
Varroa  jacobsmi,  a killer  in- 
festation affecting  bees  in 
many  parts  of  the  world,  and 
now  sweeping  across  England 
and  Wales. 

But  following  a minor  heart 
attack  in  1991,  when  Brother 
Adam  requested  an  assistant 
and  nominated  the  man  who 
could  have  taken  on  much  of  | 
the  heavy  work,  his  choice 
was  rejected.  The  move 
caused  outrage  in  Europe  and 
North  America,  where  bee- 
keepers threatened  to  withold 
substantial  royalties  unless 
the  old  man’s  work  was 
reinstated. 

Writing  afterwards,  how- 
ever, Brother  Adam  said: 
“Realising  that  to  continue  as 
before  was  out  of  the  ques- 
tion, I resigned  all  connection 
with  the  bee  department 
immediately.  ” 

His  choice  of  assistant 
would  have  been  Michael  van 
der  Zee,  a Dutchman  who  vis- 
ited Buckfast  regularly  for  20 
years  to  help  Adam,  and  who 
once  carried  the  old  man  in  a 
cane  chair  strapped  to  his 
back  on  an  expedition  to  Kili- 
manjaro in  search  of  one  par- 
ticular bee. 

Brother  Adam  commented: 
“The  decision  not  to  engage 
Mr  van  der  Zee  was  taken 
while  I was  away  in  France.  I 
was  never  given  an  opportu- 
nity to  indicate  the  conse- 
quences that  would  Inevitably 
arise  from  this  decision."  He 
felt  that  a true  assessment  of  | 


The  venerable  beekeeper . . . Brother  Adam  tending  the  hives  at  Buckfast  Abbey 


PHOTOGRAPH:  NICK  ROGERS 


breeding  potentialities  of  the 
new  oarroa-resistant  bee 
would  have  demanded  a close 
and  constant  watch  over  his 
colonies  at  all  times  of  the 
year. 

“This  would  clearly  only  be 
possible  If  I were  reinstated 
and  again  granted  the  facili- 
ties provided  throughout  the 
years  since-  1919,”  he  said, 
“Obviously  there  would  be  no 
point  in  my  resuming  charge 
without  a competent  assistant 
who  would  ensure  the  contin- 
uation of  the  beekeeping  and 
breeding  potentialities  at 
issue.’’ 

The  Abbot  of  Buckfast 


remained  unmoved.  "Brother 
Adam  is  a member  of  this 
community,  and  I am  sure 
that  having  been  so  for  over 
80  years  he  would  consider 
himself  a monk  first  and  a 
beekeeper  second,”  be  said. 

“His  work  is  unique,”  be 
conceded,  “but  he  has  only 
been  able  to  carry  this  out  be- 
cause he  has  been  a member 
of  this  community.  I do  not 
thmk  that  any  reasonable 
person  could  imagine  that 
any  other  institution  would 
have  supported  him  in  this 
way.” 

Publicly.  Brother  Adam 
seemed  to  continue  as  before: 


Composer  in  Ariadne  auf 
Naxos,  conducted  by  Btfhm. 

Strauss  coached  her  in  the 
title-role  of  Salome,  which  she 
sang  for  the  first  time  for  the 
composer's  80th  birthday  in 
June  1944.  During  the  post-war 
seasons,  after  the  destruction 
of  the  Staatsoper,  Welitsch 
sang  with  the  Vienna  ensem- 
ble at  the  Theater  an  der  Wien, 
adding  the  roles  of  Tosca,  Min- 
nie in  Fanclulla  del  Wist  Jen- 
ufa,  Tatyana  in  Eugene  One- 
gin, and  Nadya  in  Sahnhofer’s 
loan  Tarassenko,  one  of  her 
favourite  parts,  which  she 
sang  opposite  Roswange  and 
Hotter. 

After  Welitsch’s  great  Co- 
vent Garden  success,  she  ap- 
peared frequently  in  Britain, 
notably  with  the  Glynde- 
bourne  company  at  the  Edin- 
burgh Festival,  where  she  was 
greatly  acclaimed  as  Amelia  in 
Verdi’s  Un  Ballo  in  Maschera. 
She  sang  the  soprano  part  in 
Verdi's  Requiem  at  the  Leeds 
Festival  and  returned  to  Co- 
vent Garden  as  Aida,  Tosca, 
Lisa  in  Quern  qf  Spades,  Mu- 
sette in  La  Boh&me,  singing  in 
English  opposite  Schwarz- 
kopfs Mind. 

Her  most  sensational  role 
remained  Salome,  and  she 
reappeared  in  it  for  the  notori- 
ous Peter  Brook-Salvador  Dali 
production  in  1950.  This,  Lon- 
don’s first  taste  of  modern  di- 
rector's-theatre  opera,  caused 
a critical  and  audience  furore 
out  of  all  proportion  to  what 
had  happened  on  the  stage. 
Today  the  production  would 
be  considered  conservative, 
however  at  the  time  it  caused 
a scandal  which  was,  wrongly, 
compared  with  the  first  night 
of  Stravinsky's  Sacre  du 
Printemps. 


An  unforgettable  Salome  . . . Ljuba  Welitsch  in  the  Brook-Dali  production 


Welitsch,  singing  in  English, 
nevertheless  gave  a great  per- 
formance in  which  she  demon- 
strated, in  the  words  of  Lord 
Harewood,  “There  is  hardly  a 
climax  that  this  uncannily 
free-sounding  voice  cannot 
surmount . . . Almost  as 
remarkable  as  the  actual 
sound  ctf  her  voice,  and  the 
flowing,  indestructible  singing 
line,  is  the  extraordinary  vital- 
ity and  energy”. 

Her  voice  was  large,  with  an 
easy  penetrative  power. 
Harewood,  reviewing  her  Aida 
at  Covent  Garden,  noted  that 
older  opera-goers  compared 
her  part  in  the  Triumph  scene 
ensemble  with  memories  of 
Desthm.  A beautiful  silvery 
quality  lent  a poignancy  to  her 
tone  that  made  her  Salome 
convincingly  girlish,  and 


made  Musetta  and  Jenufa 
among  her  most  admired 
interpretations. 

Welitsch's  international 
career,  hammered  by  the  war. 
was  brief — she  ceased  singing 
major  roles  after  1954  — and 
came  just  before  the  era  of 
complete  recordings,  so  there 
is  comparatively  little  of  her 
art  preserved  on  disc.  In  the 
1960s  she  played  in  many  Aus- 
trian film  and  television  pro- 
ductions, as  well  as  roles  in 
the  theatre,  including  Frank 
Marcus's  The  Killing  of  Sister 
George  in  Berlin.  Welitsch 
returned  to  the  Metropolitan 
in  1972  in  the  non-singing  role 
of  the  Duchesse  de  Cracken- 
torp  in  Donizetti's  La  FiUe  du 
Regiment,  with  Sutherland 
and  Pavarotti.  She  was 
received  with  hysterical  ap- 


plause by  younger  opera-goers 
and  old  tens  alike.  As  late  as 
1978,  Welitsch  still  appeared  as 
a member  of  the  Volksoper  en- 
semble in  Vienna,  her  roles  in- 
cluding Czipra  opposite  the 
Zsup&n  of  Erich  Kunz,  in  Jo- 
hann Strauss’s  Zigamerbaron. 

Irmgard  Seefried,  recalling 
Welitsch's  performances, 
wrote:  ‘‘No  voice  has  im- 
pressed me  more  than  Ljuba 
Welitsch's...  When  she  sang 
Donna  Anna.  I was  over- 
whelmed by  the  velvet  sound. 
But  she  gave  too  much  of  her- 
self, and  nature  is  fierce,  for 
the  price  to  be  paid  is  high.” 


Patrick  O’Connor 


Ljuba  Welitsch,  opera  singer, 
bom  Juty  10,  1913;  died  August 
31,1696 


crippled,  and  crazy  / Some- 
where pushing  up  a daisy  / 
Than  to  let  you  break  my 
heart  all  over  again.”  I used  to 
love  this  song ...  but  then  an 
overanalytical  and  less  im- 
pressionable friend  killed  it 
for  me,  "Why  does  he  have  to 
be  blind,  crippled,  and  dead?” 
“How  do  you  mean?” 

“Well,  surely  just  being 
dead  would  get  the  job  done. 
Blind,  crippled,  and  crazy?  I 
don't  know,  it  just  seems  a bit 
de  trop.”  I couldn’t  believe  it! 
He  was  poking  fun  at  a soul 
singer!  These  guys  had  mare  or 
less  invented  pain  and  suffer- 
ing, and  if  O V Wright  claimed 
he  needed  to  be  a corpse  with 
three  handicaps  I was  willing 
to  take  his  ward  for  it  Was  it 
really  possible  that  R&B  could 
beftmny — and,  what's  more, 
inadvertently  ftany? 

I dismissed  the  notion  from 
my  mind...  R&B  deals  with 
sex.  pain,  loss,  love — things 
that  should  remain  serious 
well  into  your  thirties,  maybe 
even  beyond.  But  then  some- 
time later  I was  listening  to 
Wright  singing.  That’s  How 
Strong  My  Low  Is  and  I experi- 
enced a similar  sensation.  You 
might  not  recall  Otis  Redding's 


better-known  cover  of  the  song 
as  being  particnarly  hilarious, 
but  In  Wright’s  hands  it  be- 
came a comic  tour  de  force.  “Ifl 
were  a fish  that  had  been  cast 
upon  the  land,”  he  laments,  “I 
would  stay  there  ifyon  let  me 
hold  your  hand.”  Now,  even  I 
had  to  admit  this  couplet 
doesn't  work.  The  whole  fish/ 
hand  thing  is  a real  problem — 
the  only  mental  picture  one  can 
paint  is  desperately  surreal 
not  desperately  romantic  — - 
and  one  would  have  thought 

the  best  way  to  deal  with  the 
line  was  to  get  the  hell  oat  of  it 
as  quickly  as  possible-  But  he 
compounds  the  problem  by  ad- 
libbing  after  the  first “if1 
clause,  so  that  his  version  goes 
like  this:  *TC  I were  a fish— and 
this  is  a bad  situation  to  be  in 
~ that  hsd  been  cast  upon  the 
ground ..."  This  time  there  is 
no  way  around  it  Snorting,  de- 
risive laughter  is  the  only 
proper  response  Once  Td  rec- 
ognized the  absurdity  of  this 
fish  lyric,  the  scales  began  to 
tell  from  my  eyes . . . 

What  worried  me  most  about 

O.V.  Wright  and  his  fish, 
though,  was  that  it  could  set 
me  on  a terrible,  dark,  gloom  y 
road  leading  all  the  way  to  clas- 


sical music — which  fhmously 
isn't  funny  at  all,  ever. 

Nick  Hornby  fearing  the  end  of 

the  pain  in  his  R&B,  writing  in 
the  New  Yorker, 


Big  scare 


AJRACHfflUTYROPHOBIA 
— fear  of  peanut  butter  stick- 
ing to  the  roof  of  the  mouth. 
Bolshephobia — fear  of 
Bolsheviks. 

Cherophobia — fear  of  gaiety. 
Deipnophobia  —fear  of  din- 
ing and  dinner 
conversations. 

Ene  tophobia — fear  of  pins. 
Genu  phobia  — fear  of  knees. 
Hippopotomonstrosesquip- 
pedaliophobia— fear  of  long 
words. 

Ideophobia  —fear  of  ideas. 
Kyphophobia. — fear  of 
stooping. 

Levophobia —fear  of  things 
to  theleft  side  of  the  body. 
Macrophobia— fear  of  long 
waits. 

Nephophobia — fear  of 
clouds. 

Ouranophobia — fear  of 
heaven. 

Papyrophobia — fear  of 
paper. 

Rupophobia — fear  ofdirt. 


accepting  invitations  to  meet- 
ings and  addressing  beekeep- 
ers around  the  world.  Pri- 
vately, he  was  deeply  hurt 

Brother  Adam  never  lost 
his  strong,  southern  German 
accent  He  showed  enormous 
drive,  and  when  his  eyesight 
was  threatened,  French  bee- 
keepers paid  £5,000  for  an  op- 
eration in  Grenoble,  which 
enabled  him  to  continue. 

A prolific  letter-writer,  one 
could  expect  a typed  reply  al- 
most by  return  of  post  His 
ambition  was  to  live  to  100. 
After  receiving  the  last  rites 
on  several  occasions  and 
making  seemingly  miracu- 


lous recoveries,  it  looked  as 
though  his  ambition  might  be 
achieved.  He  died  In  a Devon 
nursing  home  dose  to  the 
Abbey,  where  he  had  spent 
the  last  two  years. 

His  former  assistant  Peter 
Donovan  has  continued  to 
run  the  Abbey's  bee  depart- 
ment with  the  assistance  of 
young  monks  Brothers  Daniel 
and  Lawrence  and  on  one  of 
Us  many  visits  to  friends  in 
the  North-east  where  he  en- 
joyed good  brandy,  Brother 
Adam  confirmed  that  the 
younger  men  were  showing 
promise. 

But  unless  someone  contin- 


ues where  Brother  Adam  was 
compelled-  to  stop,  and  devel- 
ops a so-called  green  bee  with 
built-in  resistance  to  varroa, 
honey  producers  will  be 
forced  to  continue  the  chemi- 
cal treatment  of  bees  and 
hives,  while  the  answer  - to 
varroa  — once  tantalisingly 
dose  — continues  to  elude 
them.  Brother  Adam  might 
have  provided  that  answer.. 


Kwfci  Rowntrce 


Brother  Adam.  Benedictine 
monk  and  beekeeper,  horn 
August  3.  1898;  died  September 
1.1996 


George  Levy 


Good  deal  of  sense 


GEORGE  Levy,  who 
has  died  aged €9,  was 
a distinguished 
dealer  in  antique 
furniture  and  an  unofficial 
watchdog  over  less  savoury 
aspects  of  the  art  market;  a 
fighter  for  the  heritage,  and  a 
benefactor  of  museums.  And 
he  taught  more  than  one  jour- 
nalist beginning  in  the  tricky 
field  of  the  art  market  how 
things  really  worked. 

Levy  was  in  the  thick  of 
campaigns  for  the  public  good 
from  the  1960s  onwards,  in- 
cluding the  battle  against  mu- 
seum and  gallery  admission 
charges.  During  the  1970s  he 
argued  that  the  British  Rail 
Pension  Fund  was  foolhardy 
in  spending  £40  millions  on 
an  "investment  portfolio”  of 
antiques  and  works  of  art, 
and  he  was  right  BR  pension- 
ers did  not  do  particularly 
well  out  of  the  investment 
He  was  also  very  knowl- 
edgeable about  the  laws  on  in- 
heritance tax  which  allow  the 
handing  over  of  treasures  in- 
stead of  money,  and  about  the 
system  by  which  someone 
who  sells  a treasure  to  the 
nation  receives  a tax  benefit 
These  matters  can  be  extraor- 
dinarily complex.  Levy  gave 
generously  of  his  advice  to 
museums  and  galleries  keen 
to  acquire  important  antiques 
and  works  of  art  in  this  way. 

This  sometimes  conflicted 
with  the  commercial  interests 
of  the  auction  houses.  The 
auctioneers,  when  the  owner  | 


of  a valuable  item  died,  would 
try  to  persuade  the  heir  to  sell 
at  auction  rather  than  hand 
the  item  over  to  the  nation; 
fees  fra-  selling  at  auction  are 
much  higher  than  those  for 
negotiating  a sale  to  the 
nation. 

But  for.  the  owner,  an.  auc- 
tion sale  is  a-gamble.- Tugs  of 
war  sometimes  followed,  with 
the  auctioneers  on  one  band. 


Levy  — art  trade  watchdog 


the  heritage  lobby  and  the 
museum  or  gallery  on  the 
other,  and  the  owner  in  the 
middle.  Levy  would  be  pull- 
ing hard  on  the  heritage  end 
of  the  rope. 

His  firm,  Blainnan’s,  often 
gave  museums  and  galleries 
its  services,  advice,  time,  and 
trouble  at  no  charge.  Other 
dealers  would  not  shrink 
from  extracting  fees  for  this 
kind  of  work. 

He  bid  successfully  at 


Christie's  .this  summer  on  be- 
half of  English  Heritage  for  a 
pair  of  earljr  18th  -century 
tables  which  had  been  made 
for  Chiswick  House,  an  archi- 
tectural gem  in  west  London. 
The  tables  had  escaped  from 
the  house  at  the  end  cf  the 
last  century.  They  fetched  al- 
most £840,000,-  and  -go, 
back  to  Chiswick  House,  rim 
by  English  Heritage. 

George  Levy  began  his 
working  life  in  a biscuit  fac- 
tory and  worked  at'  Ealing 
Studios  as  a clapper  boy.  He 
loved  gadgets  and  was  a 
pioneer  in  acquiring  than.  He 
bought  one  of  the  very  first 
calculators,  when  they  were 
expensive;  on  his  desk  when 
he  died  were  a tiny  television  - 
set  and  a clock  showing  the 
time  around  the  world. 

He  was  president  of  the 
British  Antique  Dealers’ 
Association,  and  chairman  of 
the  Friends  of  Kenwood.  He 
was  also  closely  involved  in 
art  and  antiques  fairs  such  as 
those  at  Burlington  House 
and  Grosvenor  House.  Full  of 
ftm  and  jokes,  a conversation 
with  him  might  easily  be  in- 
terrupted by  giggles  and  in- 
deed tears  of  laughter.  He 
leaves  a widow,  Wendy,  three 
daughters,  and  a son  who  is 
in  the  femily  business.  >• 


Donald  WnteraglU 


George  Levy,- antique  dealer  and 
heritage  campaigner,  bom  May 
21,  1927;  died  September  1, 1996 


Birthdays 


Geoff  Arnold,  cricket  coach, 
52;  Caryl  Churchill,  play- 
wright 58;  Michael  Con- 
narty.  Labour  MP,  49;  Dr 
Clare  Bnrstall,  psychologist 
and  educationist  65;  Dr 
Francis  Duffy,  architect,  56; 
James  Elies,  MEP.  47;  Prof 
Peter  Goddard,  master,  St 
John's  College.  Cambridge, 
51;  Nicky  Horne,  disc  jockey, 


46;  Graham  Kentfield,  chief 
cashier,  Bank  of  England,  56; 
Alison  Lurie,  writer,-  70; 
Richard  McConnac,  archi- 
tect 58;  Susan  Milan,  flau- 
tist 49;  Sir  Michael  Neu- 
bert.  Conservative  MP.  63; 
Sir  Mark  Russell,  chairman. 
Commonwealth  Institute, 
Scotland.  67;  Charlie -Sheen, 
actor,  31. 


Death  Notices 


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come  and  join  you,  but  at  first 
just  sit  there  and  look  pretty . 

If  he's  a gentleman  he’ll  ask 
the  waiter  to  send  over  a glass 
of  champagne.  If  you  agree  to 
it  he  will  come  and  say  hello 
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men  are  toere  with  wives 
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Rail  bidders  given  fund 


page  12 


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11 


Financial  Editor:  Alex  Brummer 
Telephone:  0171-239-9610 
Fax:  0171-833-4456 


FinanceGuar&lan 


Morgan  freezes  three  trusts 


Notebook 


Richard  Miles 
and  Paul  Murphy 


PLANS  by  Morgan 
Grenfell  to  take 
control  of  the  em- 
battled Kleinwort 
Benson  European 
Privatisation  Investment 
Trust  were  thrown  into  doubt 
yesterday  after  the  asset  man- 
agement wing  of  the  German- 
owned  investment  bank  sus- 
pended one  of  its  top  fund 
managers. 

The  company  has  also 
halted  rteaimgg  in  three  of  its 
unit  trusts  and  begun  investi- 
gating “possible  irregular- 
ities”. 

Of  10  suitors  which  have 
been  fighting  for  control  of 
the  £500  million  Kepit  fund 
for  the  past  month,  Morgan 
was  widely  seen  as  the  lead- 
ing contender,  given  its  exem- 
plary record  in  managing 
European  stocks. 

Industry  benchmarks  sug- 
gest its  Irish-listed  European 
Growth  fund,  which  has 
£778  million  tinder  manage- 
ment, for  the  past  five  years 
has  been  the  second-best  per- 
former out  of  112  such 
schemes. 

But  dealings  in  this  invest- 
ment vehicle  and  two  others 
run  by  by  fund  manager  Peter 
Young  — the  £134  million  MG 
Europa  and  the  £445  million' 
MG  European  Capital  Growth 
fund  — were  suspended  while 
Morgan  and  the  industry 
watchdog.  Imro,  carried  out 
an  investigation. 

A spokesman  for  the  invest- 
ment bank  said  the  inquiry 
would  centre  on  certain  un- 


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quoted  stocks  common  to  the 
portfolios  of  the  three  funds. 
No  more  than  10  per  cent  of 
the  funds  under  management 
are  said  to  be  "at  risk”,  al- 
though the  spokesman  was 
unable  to  say  when  the  inves- 
tigation would  be  completed 
or  when  dealings  in  the  three 
funds  would  resume. 

“Of  course  we  cannot  spec- 
ulate on  the  extent  these 
[losses]  might  be.  But  we  will 
stand  by  our  shareholders.” 
the  spokesman  added.  He  said 
a maximum  of  10  per  cent  of 
the  Morgan  funds  may  have 
been  held  in  “unapproved  se- 
curities”. 

Mr  Young,  a well-known 
risk-taker”  in  the  fund  man- 
agement world,  drawn  to  the 
high-risk  and  high-potential 
rewards  associated  with  fast- 
growing technology  compa- 
nies. cleared  his  desk  on  Fri- 
day. He  was  unavailable  for 
comment  last  night. 

Morgan  Grenfell  said  inves- 


tors would  be  compensated 
for  any  losses  suffered. 

The  fight  for  control  of  Ke- 
pit was  sparked  in  early 
August  when  Kleinwort  Ben- 
son. which  is  owned  by 
Frankfurt- based  Dresdner 
Bank,  hatched  plans  to  spend 
£300  million  buying  back 
shares  in  the  investment 
trust,  which  has  had  a disap- 
pointing performance  record 
since  it  was  launched  in  Jan- 
uary 1994. 

Rival  proposals  were  imme- 
diately tabled  by  several  fund 
management  competitors  — 
the  latest  offer  coming  from 
the  TR  European  Growth 
fund,  which  bag  promised  to 
take  control  of  the  trust  sell 
the  assets  and  distribute  the 
proceeds  amongst  Kepit’s 
77,000  shareholders. 

Morgan  Grenfell  is  thought 
to  have  tabled  similar  propos- 
als. and  offered  Kepit  share- 
holders the  option  of  swap- 
ping their  holdings  for  stock 
in  a number  of  its  existing 
European  fluids.  These  are 
believed  to  have  included  the 
three  funds  in  which  dealings 
were  suspended  yesterday.  . 

Morgan  Grenfell  insisted 
yesterday  that  suspension  of 
the  funds  and  of  Mr  Young 
had  no  direct  bearing  on  the 
group's  attempt  to  take  con- 
trol of  Kepit. 

A spokesman  said  Mr 
Young  would  not  have  been 
in  line  to  manage  any  Kepit 
asses  if  and  when  Morgan’s 
takeover  offer  was  accepted. 

Tne  Bank  of  Ireland  is  help- 
ing Imro  with  the  investiga- 
tion into  Morgan  Grenfell’s 
European  Growth  Trust 
which  is  based  in  Dublin. 


Pressure-cooker 
lifestyle  as  too  few 
control  too  much 


Richard  Miles 


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E fate  of  Morgan 
Grenfell’s  star  man- 
ager, Peter  Yonng, 
demonstrates  the  tremen- 
dous pressures  under 
which  fund  managers  can 
find  themselves. 

With  the  Government 
seeking  to  pass  more  of  the 
burden  for  welfare  provi- 
sion on  to  individuals,  in- 
vestment houses  like  Mor- 
gan Grenfell  are  managing 
an  increasing  proportion  of 
our  savings  and  pensions. 

But  doubts  have  arisen  in 
recent  months  as  to  how  ef- 
fectively these  huge  houses 
are  supervised. 

In  the  past  week  alone, 
the  group  of  companies  run 
by  Robert  Fleming,  the  UK 
private  merchant  bank, 
was  fined  £700,000  by  Imro, 
the  City  watchdog,  which  is 
responsible  for  monitoring 
investment  managers,  and 
now  Morgan  Grenfell  is 
under  investigation  too. 

The  need  to  perform  in  an 
increasingly  competitive 
market  has  put  enormous 
pressure  on  the  individual 
fund  managers,  who  often 


control  billions  of  pounds. 
Mr  Young,  38,  is  believed  to 
have  stepped  down  at  Mor- 
gan Grenfell  because  of  the 
stress  leveL 

After  spells  at  two  other 
top-rated  City  investment 
houses.  Mercury  Asset 
Management  and  Equity  & 
Law,  Mr  Young  inherited 
control  of  Morgan  Gren- 
fell’s two  biggest  invest- 
ment funds  in  May,  1994. 
He  managed  to  wiwintatti 
the  top-level  performance 
for  these  ftands  until  about 
six  months  ago,  when  a 
series  of  investments  in 
high-technology  companies 
turned  sour. 


Ironically,  Mr  Young’s 
predecessor  at  Morgan 
Grenfell  Asset  Manage- 
ment, John  Armitage,  quit 
for  what  he  said  was  an  eas- 
ier life  — setting  up  his  own 
specialist  investment  busi- 
ness. 

Sfmilary,  Dick  Barfield, 

49,  stepped  down  in  April 
as  head  of  investment  at 
competitor  Standard  Life, 

Europe’s  largest  mutual  in- 
surer, saying  he  wanted  a 
quieter  life. 

It  is  going  to  get  tougher  

stiJU.  A survey  in  March  by  EQlt©Ci  t)V 
actuarial  group  Caps  found  a j d " 
signs  of  an  increasing  con-  MISX  t5rUrnm©r 
centra  tion  of  funds  in  the 
hands  of  fewer  managers. 

In  1995,  80  per  cent  of  UK 
pension  assets  were  man- 
aged by  just  18  per  cent  of 
the  total  fund  management 
industry. 

In  the  meantime,  the  un- 
sexy  business  of  back-office 
administration  — settling 
share  transactions  and 
keeping  up  to  date  on  all 
the  paperwork  — has  be- 
come all  the  more  vital. 


Falling  foui  of  the 
performance  trap 


1 fund  management  in 
dustry  is  beginning  to 


The  top  10  UK  fund  managers 


Total  Assets  managed 
from  UK  (Ebn) 


1. 

Mercury  Asset  Management 

72 

2. 

Prudential  Portfolio  Managers 

58 

3. 

Gartmore 

55 

4. 

PDFM 

52 

5. 

Schrfiders 

48 

6. 

Standard  Life 

44 

7. 

Norwich  Union 

36 

8. 

Legal  & General 

33 

9. 

Morgan  Grenfell  Asset  Management 

33 

10. 

Hill  Samuel 

28 

Source:  Bacon  and  Woodrow.'CAFS  inform 


backs 
away 
from 
pay  row 


Usa  Buckingham 


GEC.  the  engineering 
and  electronics  group, 
yesterday  bowed  to 
shareholder  pressure  and 
agreed  to  revise  the  remuner- 
ation package  on  offer  to  its 
new  managing  director  in  a 
last-minute  effort  to  defuse  an 
investor  revolt  at  Friday’s 
annual  meeting. 

In  a statement  issued  last 
night,  GEC  said  the  terms  of 
Mr  Simpson’s  long-term  in- 
centive scheme  — worth  up  to 
four  times  his  salary  — had 
been  altered.  Mr  Simpson  will 
be  awarded  this  bonus  only  if 
GEC's  share  price  remains 
10  per  cent  higher  than  the 
growth  in  the  FTSE  100  share 
index  for  three  years,  com- 
pared with  the  period  of  six 
months  set  in  the  original 
contract. 

The  alteration  was  agreed 
following  a meeting  between 
Lord  Prior,  GEC’s  chairman. 
Mr  Simpson  and  representa- 
tives of  the  Association  of 
British  Insurers,  the  trade 
organisation  whose  members 
control  about  one-third  of  all 
shares.  GEC  said  Mr  Simpson 
had  accepted  the  new  terms, 
and  added  that  the  package 
now  conformed  with  the 
ABTs  guidelines  on  perfor- 
mance-related  pay  at  top  com- 
panies. 

GEC  haw  tended  to  adopt  a 
maverick  approach  to  corpo- 
rate governance  matters,  but 
was  faced  with  a wall  of  oppo- 
sition from  large  sharehold- 
ers over  Mr  Simpson’s  con- 
tract, which  is  potentially 
worth  £10  mill  inn  in  the  next 
five  years. 

Investors  have  been  out- 
raged not  so  much  by  the 
£600.000-a-year  salary  plus 
annual  bonus  but  by  what 
they  regarded  as  undemand- 
ing performance  criteria  at- 
tached to  a lucrative  “phan- 
tom” share  option  scheme. 

Shareholders  will  not  be 
given  the  chance  at  the 
annual  meeting  to  vote  on  the 
remuneration  package.  In- 
stead, any  dissent  will  centre 
on  the  resolution  to  elect  Mr 
Simpson  to  the  GEC  board  — 
essential  if  he  is  to  take  over 
as  managing  director  from 
the  ageing  Lord  Weinstock. 

The  company  is  also  con- 
cerned that  the  re-election  of 
Sir  Christopher  Harding  — a 
member  of  the  remuneration 
committee  which  agreed  Mr 
Simpson’s  package  — could 
provide  a focus  for  heated 
debate. 

Remuneration  experts  Mid 
the  original  scheme  breached 
the  ABTs  guidelines,  which 
are  designed  to  make  clear 
the  performance  terms  that 
shareholders  find  acceptable. 


Cheers . . . Czech  premier  Vaclav  Klaus  baptises  with  Champagne  the  Skoda  Octavia,  whose  health  is  vital  to  his  country’s  economy  photograph  tomas  tufck 

House  price  rise  ‘fastest  since  1 989’ 


Sarah  Ryle 


OUSE  prices  are  rising 
faster  than  at  any  time 
since  the  boom  seven 
years  ago,  according  to  a sur- 
vey out  today. 

The  Halifax  building  soci- 
ety says  that  annual  price 
growth  in  August  rose  to  5.7 
per  cent,  the  highest  year-on- 
year  increase  since  October 
1989. 

The  Halifax  welcomes  the 
relatively  small  monthly  in- 
crease of  0.5  per  cent  in 
August  as  proof  that  the  up- 
turn will  be  sustained. 


It  leaves  its  prediction  for 
price  growth  this  year  un- 
changed at  5 per  cent  Al- 
though prices  paid  by  first- 
time buyers  rose  by  0.7  per 
cent  in  August  to  5.9  per  cent 
above  a year  ago,  new  house 
prices  fell  for  the  second 
month  in  a row. 

The  Halifax  data  brings 
fresh  evidence  of  buoyant 
consumer  confidence.  Sepa- 
rate figures  published  yester- 
day showed  that  rising  con- 
sumer spending  boosted  the 
fortunes  of  the  factory  sector 
in  August  The  Purchasing 
Managers  Index,  a snapshot 
of  hard-pressed  manufactur- 


ers, showed  that  the  sector 
grew  more  strongly  in  August 
than  City  analysts  were  pre- 
dicting, with  the  index  reach- 
ing 51.8. 

Manufacturing  output  grew 
at  its  fastest  rate  for  16 
month?!,  while  prices  in  the 
sector  continued  to  fall,  said 
Peter  Thomson,  director  gen- 
eral of  the  Chartered  Institute 
or  Purchasing  and  Supply. 
“Overall,  although  growth  is 
well  below  the  levels  we  saw 
in  1994.  it  is  heartening  to  see 
a gradual  upturn  in  activity, 
following  the  slowdown  ear- 
lier this  year.” 

The  housing  and  factory  fig- 


ures will  be  among  the  last 
that  the  Chancellor,  Kenneth 
Clarke,  will  see  before  meet- 
ing Bank  of  England  governor 
Eddie  George  tomorrow  for 
the  monthly  meeting  on  mon- 
etary policy. 

Most  City  analysts  refused 
to  dismiss  the  possibility  of 
another  0.25  percentage 
point  cut.  but  said  the  proba- 
bility of  any  reduction  in 
base  rates  this  month  was 
significantly  lower  as  a 
result  of  the  fresh  signs  that 
the  economy  is  doing  well 
enough  without  further 
stimulation. 

They  warned  that  another 


strong  rise  in  the  amount  of 
cash  in  circulation,  tradition- 
ally regarded  as  a guide  to 
levels  or  consumer  demand, 
should  also  give  Mr  Clarke 
pause  for  thought 
Andrew  Cates,  an  analyst  at 
UBS,  said:  "Faced  with  this 
set  of  figures  the  chancellor 
would  be  bard  pressed  to  per- 
suade financial  markets  that 
a base  rate  cut  is  justified  at 
the  moment  — though  there 
is  some  risk  that  he  will  be 
inclined  to  ease  policy  again 
to  suit  his  political 
objectives.” 


-T-HE 

I dus  . ___ 

I look  rather  too  accident 
prone.  At  a time  when  the 
public  is  being  encouraged  to 
entrust  ever  greater  sums  in 
its  hands  — through  tax  ad 
vantageous  vehicles  such  as 
PEPs  and  defined  money  pur- 
chase pension  schemes  — it  is 
beset  by  scandal. 

Last  week  the  fund  manage- 
ment  regulator  Imro  (which 
sprung  to  fame  at  the  time  of 
the  Maxwell  affairl  came 
down  on  Jardine  Fleming  and 
its  London  associate  Robert 
Fleming  after  a senior  fund 
manager  diverted  profits  to 
his  own  account 
Now  Deutsche  Morgan 
Grenfell  Finds  itself  in  the 
frame.  In  some  respects  this 
is  the  last  group  where  one 
would  expect  irregularities 
Morgan  Grenfell  had  more 
than  its  share  of  problems  in 
1985  when  it  became  em- 
broiled in  the  share-rigging 
operation  at  Guinness  and 
separate  insider  trading  in- 
fringements involving  securi- 
ties trader  Geoffrey  Collier. 
The  loss  of  prestige  and  repu- 
tation, together  with  the  vir- 
tual closure  of  its  securities 
operation  eventually  led  Mor- 
gan Grenfell  into  the  arms  of 
Deutsche  Bank. 

It  might  have  been  thought 
that,  given  past  experience, 
Morgan  Grenfell  should  have 
been  particularly  wary  of  ag 
gressive  young  dealers  bear- 
ing profitable  gifts.  But  this  is 
where  the  control  mecha 
nisms  inside  UK  investment 
houses,  be  they  Barings. 
Fleming  or  Morgan  Grenfell, 
start  to  go  wrong.  So  competi- 
tive is  the  world  of  invest- 
ment hanking  and  asset  man- 
agement that  there  is 
tendency  for  senior  officials 
to  be  blinded  by  success 
rather  than  asking  pertinent 
questions. 

In  the  case  of  suspended 
manager  Peter  Young,  he  had 
shown  an  ability  to  deliver 
through  the  European  Capital 
Growth  Fund  and  the  Euro- 
pean Growth  Trust  The  lat 
ter’s  165  per  cent  rise,  making 
it  the  second  best  performing 
European  equity  fund,  is 
highly  impressive. 

But  it  ought  also  to  have 
been  a red  flag.  In  the  mar- 
kets Mr  Young  was  known  for 
his  interest  in  high-flying 
technology  stocks,  his  will- 
ingness to  take  risks  and  to 
have  a punt  on  unlisted  secu- 
rities before  quotation  — a 
dramatic  way  of  outperform- 
ing everyone  else.  But  the 
pressure  of  producing  the 
high  returns  which  Morgan 
Grenfell  gratefully  accepted 
plainly  brought  its  strains. 

Now  Morgan  Grenfell  finds 
itself  again  at  the  centre  of 
investigations.  It  says  that  the 
losses,  if  there  are  any,  will  be 
limited  to  the  three  trusts  In 
which  Mr  Young  was  in- 
volved and  that  there  will  be 
full  reparations  to  investors. 
Deutshe  Bank,  having  de- 


cided to  move  its  investment 
banking  operations  to  London 
and  join  them  with  Morgan 
Grenfell,  is  finding  out  the 
dealing  culture  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  economies  has  its 
downside  too. 


Wising  up 

G; 


EC  could  have  done 
without  the  kerfuffle 
surrounding  George 
Simpson's  arrival  as  manag- 
ing director.  Simpson  was 
plainly  foolish  in  accepting 
what  turns  out  to  be  a softly 
drawn,  long-term  incentive 
Package  and  GEC  was  un- 
characteristically careless  in 
allowing  it  through. 

But  the  group  was  so  intent 
on  getting  its  new  managing 
director  to  succeed  Lord 
Weinstock,  its  guard  seems  to 
have  been  temporarily  down. 
As  a result  the  annointment 
at  Friday's  annual  meeting, 
may  be  rougher  than  was  nec- 
essary even  though  the  terms 
of  the  service  agreement  have 
now  been  tightened.' 

What  is  most  worrying 
about  this  whole  incident 
however,  is  the  role  of  the 
GEC  share  options  committee 
which  includes  two  pillars  of 
the  Association  of  British  In- 
surers — Sir  Christopher 
Harding  of  Legal  & General 
and  Ron  Artus,  formerly  of 
thePru. 

This  pair  of  wise  men 
should  have  recognised  that 
the  terms  of  the  deal  did  not 
meet  ABI  guidelines.  Share- 
holders could  best  show  their 
dissent  at  the  meeting  by  giv- 
ing Sir  Christopher,  who  is 
up  for  re-election,  a fright 


Private  enterprise 


THE 
I bud 
I the 


Treasury  has  never 
budged  from  its  line  that 
Private  Finance  Ini- 
tiative is  a high  profile  pro- 
ject and  the  last  word  in  pri- 
vate and  public  sector 
partnership,  despite  having  to 
nurse  it  from  one  public  rela- 
tions crisis  to  another  since  it 
was  launched  four  years  ago. 

Which  is  why  the  appoint- 
ment of  one  David  Steeds  to 
run  the  PFI  panel  seems  sur- 
prising. It  is  very  important 
for  the  Government  that  the 
PFI  should  be  seen  to  work, 
both  to  answer  critics  and  to 
enable  the  Chancellor  to  use 
it  to  trim  public  spending  fur- 
ther in  the  coming  Budget 
So  a top  flight  appointment 
might  have  been  expected: 
somebody  well  known  to  to 
the  property  giants,  banks 
and  legal  firms  who  have  crit- 
icised the  red  tape  and  public 
sector  ethos  which  they  claim 
has  bogged  down  the  PFL 
As  it  is,  Mr  Steeds  heads  a 
firm  called  Serco  Group,  a 
business  and  government  ser- 
vices company  which  may  be 
well  known  in  the  world  of 
PFL  but  which  is  not  so  well 
known  anywhere  else. 

Mr  Steeds  is.  however,  a 
good  choice  in  one  respect 
His  company,  Serco.  is  short- 
listed for  three  projects  (the 
Manchester  Metro  Link,  the 
Worcester  General  Hospital 
and  the  Defence  Helicopter 
Flying  School)  which  have 
yet  to  be  awarded.  In  promis- 
ing to  stand  back  from  these, 
or  future  projects  Serco  is 
part  oC  he  will  be  able  to  dem- 
onstrate just  how  well  the 
process  is  working. 


Bosses  shun  ‘fat  caf  label  as 
nuclear  company  is  sold  off 


Nicholas  Bannister 
Technology  Editor 


Outlook,  page  12 


Unison  to  sue  insurers  over  pension  sales 


Teresa  Hunter 


UNISON.  Britain’s  biggest 
trade  union,  is  to  pursue 
dozens  of  leading  insurance 
companies  in  the  courts  after 
accusing  them  of  abandoning 
hundreds  of  mainly  young  fe- 
male victims  of  the  pensions 
mis -selling  scandal. 

Nurses  and  other  health 
workers  loom  large  among 
the  union’s  members  who 
were  persuaded  to  opt  out  of 
an  attractive  company  pen- 
sion in  favour  of  an  inferior 
insurance  company  scheme. 
But  the  union  fears  that  150  of 
these  employees  may  not  be 
compensated-  . 

Prudential.  Pearl.  Allied 
Dunbar,  Hill  Samuel,  General 
Accident.  Commercial  Union. 
Sun  Alliance.  TSB.  Legal  & 


General  and  Scottish  Widows 
are  among  the  large  compa- 
nies which  Unison  will  chal- 
lenge in.  court  to  ensure 
claims  remain  within  the 
legal  limit.  The  union 
plans  to  sue  Windsor 
Life,  Imperial  Trident  Mer- 
chant Investors,  Crown  Life 
and  London  & Manchester. 

Glvn  Jenkins,  Unison’s  pen- 
sions officer,  said:  “We  are 
dissatisfied  with  the  progress 
being  made  by  the  life  and 
pensions  industry.  We  feel 
that  we  must  move  now  to 
protect  our  members’  posi- 
tion and  we  are  asking  any 
member  who  believes  they 
hare  been  given  misleading 
advice  to  get  in  touch  immedi- 
ately.” 

The  union  is  seeking  com- 
pensation for  more  than  700 
members  but  believes  that  150 


riaims  could  be  ruled  out  by 
the  six-year  time  limit 

Mr  Jenkins  is  concerned 
that  many  other  victims  may 
be  unaware  they  have  a pen- 
sion problem. 

While  1988,  the  year  when 
membership  of  a company 
scheme  became  voluntary, 
“was  a particular  disaster  for 
local  government  employ- 
ees”,  Mr  Jenkins  pointed  out 
that  since  then  new  employ- 
ees had  to  opt  Into  a scheme 
rather  than  opt  out  "We 
know  large  numbers  foiled  to 
do  so.” 

A spokesman  for  the 
Association  of  British  Insur- 
ers denied  members  were 
dragging  their  feet  and  said 
they  faced  “very  real  difficul- 
ties" obtaining  appropriate 
information  from  company 
pension  schemes. 


Cash-rich  Allders  returns  £50m 
to  investors  in  special  dividend 


Tony May 


THE  Allders  department 
store  group  — which  is  sit- 
ting on  a £100  million  cash 
pile  after  selling  its  duty-free 
business  earlier  this  year  — 
is  to  return  £50  million  to 
shareholders  through  a 
special  dividend. 

The  group,  which  is  also  to 
reduce  its  share  capital  by  ex- 
changing 15  new  shares  for 
every  19  existing  shares,  said 
details  of  the  dividend  pay- 
ment and  reverse  stock  split 
will  be  sent  to  shareholders 
as  soon  as  Inland  Revenue 
grants  the  appropriate  clear- 
ances. After  the  reverse  split, 
the  number  of  the  group’s 
shares  will  have  decreased  by 


21  per  cent  to  85.1  million,  but 
their  value  will  be  higher. 

Chief  executive  Harvey  Lip- 
sith  also  said  the  group  had 
clinched  an  agreement  to  pur- 
chase eight  Owen  Owen  and 
Lewis’s  department  stores  for 
£23.6  million  cash  in  deals 
first  mentioned  in  August. 

Allders  will  undertake  a 
£15 million  refurbishment  Of' 
the  stores  — located  at  Leeds. 
Coventry.  Oxford.  Ipswich, 
Basingstoke,  nford.  Red  ditch 
and  Slough  — which  made  an 
operating  profit  of  £291.000  on 
sales  of  £76.2  million  in  1995. 

Mr  Lipsith  added  that  al- 
though the  new  stores  would 
fit  in  well  with  the  group,  he 
did  not  expect  them  to  make  a 
contribution  to  earnings  in 
the  first  year. 


% ERECTORS  of  AEA  Tech- 
nology. the  specialist 
science  and  engineering  busi- 
ness spun  off  from  Britain's 
stateowned  nuclear  industry, 
are  seeking  to  avoid  being 
branded  boardroom  “fet  cats" 
as  the  company  is  sold  off  in 
probably  foe  last  privatisa- 
tion before  the  election. 

The  board  plans  to  distribute 
5 per  cent  of  group  profits  each 
year  evenly  to  all  3^00  employ- 
ees in  foe  form  of  shares,  and 
employees  will  be  entitled  to' 
take  part  in  foe  company's 
share  option  scheme. 

However  the  pathfinder 
prospectus  for  the  group’s  ex- 
pected £200  million  placing  at 
the  end  of  foe  month  shows 
that  foe  executive  directors 
will  be  entitled  to  perfor- 
mance-related bonuses  worth 
up  to  40  per  cent  of  basic  sal- 


ary. This  compares  to  foe  35 
per  cent  they  could  get  when 
foe  company  was  in  foe  pub- 
lic sector. 

New  chief  executive  Peter 
Watson,  who  has  just  made  a 
£4  million  profit  following  foe 
takeover  of  foe  Porterbrook 
rail  leasing  company,  said 
AEAT  did  not  have  the  scope 
for  boosting  profits  by  further 
cost  cutting.  The  company 
has  cut  Its  workforce  by  1.100 
over  foe  past  two  years. 

Unlike  most  other  privati- 
sations, the  AEAT  offering  is 
aimed  mainly  at  institutional 
investors.  However  employ- 
ees are  being  encouraged  to 
become  shareholders  right 
from  foe  start*  each  employee 
will  receive  £160  worth  of 
shares  free  and  will  get  extra 
free  shares  if  they  invest  fur- 
ther in  the  company.  AEAT 
claims  it  carries  “no  signifi- 
cant nuclear  liabilities”  since 
these  have  been  left  with  foe 
UK  Atomic  Energy  Authority. 


TOURIST  RATES  — BANK  SELLS 


Australia  1.9150  France  7.6540  Italy  2.310  Singapore  2.145 

Austria  15.76  Germany  2J425  Malta  0.5360  South  Alrlca  G.S1 

Belgium  46.10  Greece  361.50  Netherlands  2.5175  Spain  183.40 

Canada  2.085  Hong  Kong  11.76  New  Zealand  2 2025  Sweden  10  19 

Cyprus  0.6930  India  55.75  Norway  9.75  Switzerland  1.8140 

Denmark  8.70  Ireland  0.9350  Portugal  231  00  Turkey  128.265 

Finland  6.9375  Israel  4.96  Saudi  Arabia  5.82  USA  1.5250 

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12  FINANCE  AND  ECONOMICS 


The  Guardian  Tuesday  September  3 1996 


, C5ii^r5U 


Rail  pensioners  shunted  into  sidings 


Keith  Harper 
Transport  Editor 


Bidders  for  new 
private  rail  fran- 
chises have  been 
given  confidential 
data  by  the  Gov- 
ernment on  the  vast  sur- 
pluses in  the  British  Rail  pen- 
sion fund  as  part  of  the  effort 
to  bolster  the  speedy  sell-off  of 
the  rail  network. 

Disclosure  of  the  details  of 
the  £10.5  billion  pension  fund 

to  the  bidders  — including 
the  French  transport  con- 
glomerate which  is  taking 
over  South  East  Trains  — has 
alarmed  the  fluid's  trustees. 
They  fear  the  surpluses  will 
be  creamed  off  by  private 
companies  and  treated  as  a 
windfall  gain. 

The  dispute  between  the 
Government  and  the  pension 
fund  trustees  is  revealed  in  a 
series  of  confidential  letters 
obtained  by  the  Guardian. 

The  letters  show  that  the 
Government  actuary,  Chris 


Daykin  — who  has  a duty  to 
protect  the  Interests  of  em- 
ployees’ — exceeded  his  man- ; 
date  in  providing  details  of; 
surpluses  and  that  his  posi- 1 
tion  has  been  compromised. 

The  Transport  Secretary, ; 
Sir  George  Young,  has  been  : 
told  that  Mr  Daykin  has  bra- ! 
ken  the  trustees’  confidence  , 
by  providing  details  of  the 
surpluses,  which  could  be 
used  by  the  new  privatised 
rail  ope  raters  to  reduce  the 
cost  of  employment  by  taking 
a pensions  holiday  until  the 
year  2003.  The  lower  cost  of 
hmding  will  make  it  cheaper 
to  run  the  railway  franchises 
commercially. 

The  chairman  of  the  BR 
pension  fund,  Derek  Fowler, 
strongly  protests  in  an  angry 
letter  to  the  Government-ap- 
pointed rail  franchise  direc- 
tor, Roger  Salmon,  about  the 
contents  and  circulation  of  a 
memorandum  containing  de- 
tails of  the  surpluses.  “The 
mere  suggestion  that  there 
might  be  surplus  of  assets 
over  liabilities  at  any  particu- 


»My attention  has  been 
Sxr  drawn  to  a note  by  tf» 

Government  Actrary's 
'— <«  Department ...  gfcren 

to  bidders  for  the 
franchise  to  operate 

— — - fhesoufh  Eastern 

- Trains  Company. . . 

I must  protest  fen  the 
strongest  possible 
terms  against  the 
contents  and 
covariation  of  the 
memorandum  intis  ‘ 
suggestions  relating  to 
Lt sstsgssaszssssxi  a possible  lewd  of 

surplus  and  to  the  ‘ 
gjaeass1""  pondteHtyofafuture 

Vgf.ST*--  ""  contribution  hofiday  : 

._ii_  forth®  employer. 1 

BR  pension  fond  chairman’s  letter  to  franchise  director 


1st  level  at  this  stage  is  totally 
unacceptable  to  the  trustees." 

The  fluid,  which  looks  after 
the  interests  of  more  than 
300,000  people,  is  one  of  the 
biggest  in  the  country,  having 


1 been  built  up  since  national- 
isation in  1947.  At  the  start  of 
privatisation,  it  fought  off  an 
attempt  to  syphon  off  some  of 
its  huge  surpluses  to  the  Trea- 
sury. 


The  actuary’s  move  and  the 
angry  reaction  of  the  trustees 
show  that  Mr  Salmon  is  act- 
ing to  prevent  further  revela- 
tions of  pension-fund  details, 
but  that  the  position  of  Mr 
Daykin  may  have  been 
compromised. 

The  trustees  acted  after  dis- 
covering that  the  actuary's 
department  had  issued  a 
memorandum  to  bidders  for 
South  East  Trains,  the  latest 
part  of  BR  to  be  privatised. 

The  memorandum  pointed 
out  that  the  true  assets  of  the 
fund  had  been  too  modest, 
and  that  the  surplus  could  be 
more  than  20  per  cent  of 
liabilities.  The  ownership  of 
pension-fund  surpluses  has 
long  been  a matter  of  dispute, 
but  they  are  normally  de- 
ployed in  the  best  interests  of 
current  and  future 
pensioners. 

Mr  Daykin’s  move  pro- 
duced an  immediate  outcry 
among  the  trustees  because 
he  acts  for  the  fund  as  welL  In 
the  memorandum,  he  ex- 
plains that  the  considerable 


increase  in  the  fund's  surplus 
is  due  to  lower  pay  increases, 
a decline  in  the  number  of 
people  in  the  industry  and 
better  investment  returns.  He 
suggests  that  the  new  owners 
of  South  East  Trains,  the 
French  transport  conglomer- 
ate CGEA.  would  not  be 
obliged  to  make  any  further 
pensions  contributions  for 
the  nest  seven  years  — the 
duration  of  the  franchise. 

Mr  Fowler  makes  it  clear  in 
his  memorandum  to  Mr 
Salmon  thai  the  disclosure 
will  make  it  “extremely  diffi- 
cult" for  the  trustees  “to 
agree  to  any  proposal  for  an 
employer  contribution  holi- 
day for  fear  of  being  consid- 
ered to  have  taken  into  ac- 
count matters  which  they 
ought  not  to  have  done”. 

Mr  Fowler's  letter  urges  Mr 
Salmon  to  withdraw  all  refer- 
ences to  the  level  of  surplus 
and  how  it  might  be  applied. 

. He  also  asks  Mr  Salmon  to 
ensure  that  future  franchis- 
ing documents  do  not  contain 
any  references  to  issues  ; 


which  are  the  responsibility 
of  the  trustees. 

In  an  equally  strong  letter 
to  the  actuary.  Mr  Fowler 
says:  "It  is  not  possible  for  a 
Government  actuary  to  con- 
tinue to  advise  the  trustees 
except  on  the  basis  of  mutual 
confidence  and  trust  This 
cannot  survive  actions  likely 
to  compromise  their 
independence.” 

Mr  Fowler  says  that  the  ac- 
tuary’s revelations  to  private 
bidders  are  “wholly  unaccept- 
able”. and  inconsistent  with 
his  role  as  an  advisor  to  the 
BRfund, 

A further  letter  to  the 
Transport  Secretary  reminds 
i the  Government  that  the 
fund’s  independence  was 
r guaranteed  by  ministers  dur- 
ing the  privatisation  debate. 
He  describes  Mr  Daykin’s 
action  as  inconsistent  with 
his  status  and  stresses  that 
“prudence  and  courtesy 
would  have  suggested  prior 
consultation". 

In  a reply  to  Mr  Fowler  by 
Mr  Salmon,  dated  August  13, 


the  franchise  director  assets 
that  he  has  been  asked  by  fee 
Government  to  consider  ^ 
question  of  “obtaining  value 
for  money  for  the  taxpayer 
over  such  a surplus,  and  pro- 
spective windfall  gain  to  new 
franchise  operators". 

But  Mr  Salmon  has  agreed 
to  amend  advice  to  new  bid- 
ders. noting  that  they  most 
not  assume  they  will  be 
allowed  a pensions  holiday  so 
that  they  can  use  the  money 
for  their  own  purposes. 

Mr  Fowler,  who  has-  this 
week  handed  over  the  chair- 
manship of  the  fund  to  HR’s 
finance  director,  James  Jer- 
ram,  said  last  night  “It  is 
now  up  to  the  trustees  to  de- 
cide whether  the  present  situ- 
ation Is  satisfactory. 

“Private  companies  should 
not  be  allowed  to  dip  into' a 
pensions  fund  for  their  own 
needs. 

"We  are  looking  after  the 
interests  of  more  than  300,000 
people  and  cannot  allow 
others  to  take  advantage  of 
the  fund.” 


Farnborough  Airshow/  European  challenge 
to  US  dominates  day,  Simon  Beavis  reports 

Heseltine  backs 
Euro-aerospace 


Boeing  lambasts 
Airbus  project 
for  superjumbo 


ICHAEL  HESEL- 
TINE yesterday 
threw  his  weight 
behind  moves  to 
speed  up  integration  of 
Europe's  aerospace  industry, 
as  it  emerged  that  British 
Aerospace  wants  to  achieve 
[indication  of  the  industry  — 
possibly  In  one  company  — 
within  five  years. 

The  deputy  prime  minis- 
ter's wholehearted  support 
for  the  integration  of  Euro- 
pean manufacturers  marks  a 
significant  change  of  tone  for 
a politician  who  has  learned 
to  stifle  his  Euro-enthusiasm 
after  the  Westland  crisis  saw 
him  resign  from  the  Govern- 
ment and.  more  recently,  in 
the  face  of  Conservative  div- 
isions over  Europe. 

Speaking  at  the  Farnbor- 
ough Airshow,  which  he  had 
earlier  opened,  Mr  Heseltine 
made  it  clear  that  aerospace 
companies  in  Europe  had  to 
by  to  match  the  aggressive 
moves  towards  consolidation 
which,  in  the  US,  have  pro- 
duced the  giant  Lockheed- ; 
Martin  combine  and,  more 
recently,  seen  Boeing  acquire 
Rockwell  for  $3  billion 
(£1.9  billion). 

Mr  Heseltine  said:  “The 
process  is  unstoppable,  and  it 
is  very  desirable." 

He  made  it  clear  that,  by 
pooling  its  resources,  Euro- 
pean firms  would  get  access 
to  more  sophisticated  and 
more  valuable  collaborative 
programmes,  both  with  the 


US  and  with  new  partners  in 
the  Far  East  "The  Govern- 
ment recognises  this  process 
has  got  to  go  forward  and  is 
therefore  looking  for  ways  to 
bring  some  urgency  to  that,” 
he  said. 

But  he  acknowledged  that 
there  was  a political  hurdle, 
in  that  individual  nations 
still  saw  aerospace  and  de- 
fence producers  as  strategi- 
cally vital,  with  many  firms 
remaining  in  state  control. 

“There's  a price  for  politics, 
and  it’s  a price  Europe  will 
Find  increasingly  difficult  to 
pay,”  he  warned.  Exports 
would  be  the  main  casualty  of 
a failure  to  combine. 

Mr  Heseltine  was  echoing 
the  thoughts  of  British  Aero- 
space, which  increasingly 
realises  that  time  is  running 
out  for  Europe  if  it  wants  to 
pool  its  resources  and  take  on 
American  companies  in  the 
world's  export  markets. 

BAe  is  keen  to  see  the  suc- 
cesses of  the  European  Air- 
bus consortium  extended 
more  widely,  but  knows  from 
bitter  experience  how  hard  It 
Is  to  achieve  Integration  In 
more  sensitive  defence  areas. 
Its  recently  agreed  deal  with 
France's  Matra  to  form  a 
50/50  missile  joint  venture 
took  three  years  to  negotiate. 

Executives  are  being 
spurred  on  by  worries  that 
the  world  market  for  defence 
products  will  be  mopped  up 
by  the  ever  more  powerful  US 
contractors,  which  are 


The  Open 
University 


BUSINBSSISCHOOl 


secured  by  a US  defence  bud- 
get twice  that  of  Europe's  and 
by  much  more  generous 
research  and  development 
Funding  f mm  the  government 

The  company  has  set  itself 
a target  of  achieving  integra- 
tion within  five  years,  al- 
though officials  admit  this  is 
highly  ambitious.  Stressing 
the  urgency  of  the  situation, 
one  official  said:  "If  we  are 
still  British  Aerospace  in  five 
years  we  will  have  failed." 

BAe  is  now  thought  to  be 
happy  with  the  idea  of  com- 
bining with  its  domestic  rival 
GEC  — an  idea  it  has  previ- 
ously resisted  — when  George 
Simpson,  previously  deputy 
chief  executive  of  BAe,  takes 
over  this  week  as  GEC's  man- 
aging director.  But  such  a 
move  is  not  seen  as  a stepping 
stone  towards  wider  Euro- 
pean restructuring. 

Confidence  that  greater 
consolidation  can  be  achieved 
has  been  enhanced  by  Airbus 
Industrie,  the  four-nation 
consortium  which  hopes  this 
year  to  sign  an  agreement 
transforming  the  organisa- 
tion from  a special  protected 
body  to  a plc-type  company. 

The  four  partners  — Aero- 
spatiale of  France,  BAe,  Dasa 
of  Germany  and  Casa  of  Spain 
— are  carrying  out  Individual 
audits  of  their  businesses 
ahead  of  detailed  negotiations 
about  the  financial  shape  of 
the  new  company. 

There  are  separate  moves 
to  try  to  incorporate  the  AIR 
regional  aircraft  venture  be- 
tween BAe,  Aerospatiale  and 
Alenia  of  Italy  into  Airbus 
following  AIR'S  success  in  ne- 
gotiating an  exclusive  deal 
with  China  and.  Singapore  to 
produce  a 100-seater  airliner. 

There  has  been  speculation 
also  that  Saab  of  Sweden,  al- 
ready linked  to  BAe  in  the  de- 
fence field,  is  keen  to  join  the 
consortium  via  the  A3XX 
"supeijumbo”  project 

Officials  believe  the  Airbus 
set-up  could  provide  a model 
for  wider  restructuring  where 
the  entire  industry  is  grouped 
under  one  giant  holding  com- 
pany. But  they  recognise  that 
a number  of  models  are  poss- 
ible, including  separate 
groupings  for  civil  and  mili- 
tary defence  businesses. 


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BOEING  and  the  Euro- 
pean aircraft  maker, 
Airbus,  launched  into 
a furious  war  of  words  over 
the  viability  of  the  next 
generation  of  superjumbo 
aircraft  yesterday.  The  US 
manufacturer  claimed  that 
making  a plane  to  carry 
more  than  600  passengers 
would  be  "financial 
suicide”. 

The  Airbus  consortium  is 
increasingly  convinced 
that  a market  exists  for 
such  an  airliner.  In  reply, 
Boeing  launched  a public 
relations  offensive  to  fry  to 
win  support  for  its  propos- 
als to  develop  its  existing 
747  with  more  capacity  and 
extra  range. 

Boeing  claimed  that  an 
aircraft  of  the  dimensions 
being  considered  by  Airbus 
— able  to  carry  nearly  1,000 
all  economy  passengers  or 
620  in  three  classes  — 
would  be  economically  un- 
viable  and  potentially  un- 
safe. The  Europeans  dis- 
missed these  claims  as 
“self-serving'*. 

Behind  the  row,  which, 
broke  out  on  the  opening 
day  of  the  Farnborough 
Airshow,  lies  a battle  for 
custom  from  some  of  the 
world's  fastest-growing  air- 
lines and  Boeing’s  determi- 
nation to  exploit  its  monop- 
oly in  producing  the  biggest 
commercial  aircraft 
Airlines  including  Brit- 
ish Airways,  Cathay  Pa- 
cific, Malaysian  Airlines 
and  Singapore  Airlines 
have  been  reluctant  to  com- 
mit themselves  to  buying 
large  planes  from  Boeing 
until  they  see  if  Airbus  can 
develop  a rivaL 
Airbus'  challenger,  the 
A3XX,  will  be  at  least  three 
years  behind  Boeing's 
planned  500  and  600,  both 
derivatives  of  the  747  al- 
though with  new  wings, 
new  engines  and  more  mod- 
I em  systems. 

Ron  Woodard,  president 
of  Boeing,  said  that  the 
company  forecast  demand 
over  the  next  20  years  for 
only  470  aircraft  with  a 
capacity  of  500  seats  or 
more  — compared  with  Air- 
bus’ bullish  prediction  of 
1,380- 

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Airbus  forecast  was  based 


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huge  costs  of  developing  a 
totally  new  airliner  rather 
than  reality.  He  poured 
scorn  on  the  European  con- 
sortium’s estimate  that  it 
could  deliver  the  AS XX  pro- 
gramme for  as  little  as 
$8  billion  (£5.2  billion). 
Boeing’s  own  plans  to  de- 
velop derivatives  of  the- 747 
would  cost  more  than 
$5  billion,  he  said: 

By  contrast  he  said  ear- 
lier joint  studies  with  Air- 
bus, which  were  termi- 
nated only  18  months  ago, 
had  unanimously  con- 
cluded that  to  develop  a 
new  superjumbo  wonld 
cost  between  $12  billion 
and  $15  billion. 

“We  came  up  with  joint 
numbers  and  concluded 
that  even  half  this  pro- 
gramme was  financial  sui- 
cide,” Mr  Woodard  told  a 
packed  press  conference. 

Boeing  used  the  show  to 
announce  orders  worth 
$6.5  billion  from  a string  of 
airlines  led  by  British  Air- 
ways, which  Is  ordering 
747s  at  an  accelerating  pace 
and  boosting  its  fleets  of 
777s  and  757s.  But  Boeing 
notably  failed  to  unveil  a 
launch  customer  for  the 
newest  versions  of  the 747. 

Airbus,  was  unable  to  - 
make  a fhll  presentation  to 
the  press'  yesterday  after 
the  floor  of  the  press  tent 
collapsed  — just  as  Boeing 
was  making  its  presenta- 
tion. The  European  consor- 
tium is  expected  to  an- 
nounce orders  worth 
nearly  $3  billion  today. 

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acknowledge  that  it  will 
have  to  spread  develop- 
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■ recovery  in  house-building 
hanging  fire? 

The  industry  has  reported  a 
63  per  cent  fall  in  new  orders 
to  £233  billion  over  the  first 
half  of  the  year.  Completions 
were  down  by  a similar 
amount  but  the  second  quar- 
ter showed  an  accelerating 
decline  of  10  per  cent. 

This  may  partly  reflect  an 
attempt  by  Wimpey  and 
Beazer.  the  industry's  top  two 
builders  who  accounted  for 
12.5  per  cent  of  new  homes 
built  last  year,  to  restore  their 
margins  by  building  fewer, 
more  expensive,  homes. 

But  there  Is  also  evidence 
that  demand  is  down  — the 
House  Builders  Federation 
says  that  the  level  of  visitors 
to  new  sites  is  down  7 percent 
on  a last  year  — and  some 
City  analysts  say  the  second- 
hand market  has  grown  at  the 
expense  of  new-buil  d- 

The  industry  thinks  the 
worst  may  be  over  and  ex- 
pects to  see  a moderate  im- 
provement in  new  starts  in 
the  second  half  of  this  year  — 


possibly  5 or  10  per  cent  above 
the  dismal  figures  for  1995. 
But  Some  pundits  say  that  un- 
certainty created  by  the  gen- 
eral election  could  postpone  a 
strong  pick-up  in  sales  until 
well  into  next  year,  possibly 
until  next  August 

Against  tbls  background 
the  leading  companies  in  the 
sector  have  been  consolidat- 
ing to  take  advantage  of  that 
long-delayed  recovery. 

Wimpey  has  swapped  con- 
struction for  Tarmac's  house- 
building arm  to  dominate  the 
industry  and  the  City  will  be 
keen  for  an  update  on  pro- 
gress when  Wimpey  reports  a 
dip  in  profits  of  some  5 per 
cent  to  about  £1  million  today. 

The  first  result  from  the 
sector  has  come  from  Persim- 
mon but  this  provides  little 
clue  as  a whole  since  this 
York-based  housebuilder 
jumped  from  eighth  to  fourth 
place  in  the  industry  table 
when  it  paid  £177  million  in 
February  to  buy  Ideal  Homes 
from  Trafalgar  House. 

The  deal  increased  the 
group’s  size  by  50  per  cent 
with  Ideal  complementing  the 


group's  traditional  strength 
in  Yorkshire  and  the  eastern 
counties  by  bringing  in  expo- 
sure to  Wales  and  the  South 
West  It  has  also  strengthened 
Persimmon’s  exposure  in  the 
South  East  where  the  first 
stirrings  of  a pick-up  in  de- 
mand have  been  detected.  , 

The  chairman,  Duncan 
Davidson,  said  yesterday  that ! 
he  was  ‘‘delighted"  with  pro-  j 
grass  so  far.  Ideal  Homes  had  ! 
been  integrated  and  he  pre- 
dicted an  improved  second 
half.  “Since  July  1 trading 
has  continued  to  improve  and 
If  these  conditions  persist  we 
are  confident  of  achieving  oar 
objective  of  increased  unit 
sales  and  profit  margins,'*  he 
said. 

The  46  per  cent  rise  in  first- 
half  profit  to  £l*t2  million  — 
before  a £3  million  reorganisa- 
tion charge — was  in  line  with 
City  forecasts  and  included  a 
four-month  contribution  from 
Ideal  Persimmon  has  closed 
Ideal's  head  office,  and  closed 
or  merged  six  of  its  subsidiary 
offices.  It  is  trading  from  more 
than  300  sites  and  in  the  first 
half  of  the  year  sold  2,696 


houses,  up  from  1,676  a year 
ago  and  hopes  to  sell  6.000  in  a 
full  year. 

The  City  calculated  that  by 
using  its  50  per  cent  increase 
in  size  to  get  better  prices  for 
its  bricks,  cement  and  other 
materials,  the  enlarged  Per- 
simmon would  save  £1.5  mil-  , 
lion  a year  on  purchasing  and 
marketing.  The  group  is  cer- 1 
tainly  generating  enough , 
cash  to  slash  debt  This  rose 
to  £175  million  immediately  < 
after  the  acquisition,  but  has 
now  Mien  by  one  third  to 
£108  million,  a ratio  of  debt  to 
equity  of  40  per  cent 

True,  the  interim  dividend  is 
pegged  at  3p  but  Mr  Davidson 
said:  “As  soon  as  the  full  bene- 
fits of  the  acquisition  have  ma- 
terialised vre  expect  to  con- 
tinue our  objective  of  a 
progressive  dividend  policy." 

But  the  company’s  shares, 
which  reached  a 12-month 
high  of  242p  in  April,  gained, 
just  lp  to  215p  on  the  results. 

It  seems  that  like  house- 
buyers,  analysts  believe 
things  are  getting  better  but 
are  not  keen  buyers  yet  They 
see  better  value  elsewhere. 


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The  Guardian  Tuesday  September  3 1996 

Tennis 

Hingis  blows 

away  sad 


Stephen  Blerley 
at  Flushing  Meadow 


ON  A morning  so 
pure  and  bright,  the 
skies  having  been 
scoured  of  clouds  by 
Hurricane  Edouard's  near 
miss,  that  every  detail  of  New 
York  seemed  etched  in  fine 
pencil,  Martina  Hingis  gave 
youth  its  glorious  fling  with  a 
6-1,  3-6,  6-4  win  over  the 
third  seed  Arantxa  Sanchez 
Vicario  to  reach  the  quarter' 
finals  of  the  US  Open. 

It  might  have  been  over  all 
the  quicker  had  the  English 
umpire  Jane  Harvey  not  over- 
ruled a call  on  the  Spaniard's 
serve  at  a crucial  moment  in 
the  second  set  The  new  base- 
line camera  used  by  USA  Net- 
work, which  shoots  at  800 
frames  per  second,  clearly 
showed  the  ball  dropping  on 
the  line.  Harvey  said  it  was 
out. 

Sanchez  Vicario.  having 
been  comprehensively  out- 
played in  the  first  set  took  that 
game  4-3,  and  Hingis  immedi- 
ately slewed  her  racket  across 
court  in  a show  of  petulance. 
For  some  time  the  15-year-old 
Swiss  girl  brooded;  there  ap- 
peared every  chance  she  might 
spiral  quickly  to  defeat  They 
had  met  only  once  before,  ear- 
lier this  year  in  America, 
when  Hingis  had  likewise 
taken  the  first  set  at  a gallop 
only  to  lose  the  match. 

Sanchez  Vicario,  beaten  by 
Steffi  Graf  in  this  year's 
French  Open  and  Wimbledon 
finals,  last  won  a Grand  Slam 
title  here  in  19M,  but  when  she 
levelled  yesterday  few  believed 
she  would  not  progress. 

Hingis,  seeded  16.  immedi- 
ately: lost  her  serve  at  the  start 
of  the  third  set.  frequently 
throwing  her  head  back  in  dis- 
gust when  she  missed  the  line 


or  overhit.  The  Spaniard 
danced  up  and  down  with  un- 
disguised anticipation  of  a 
quick,  final  kilt 

But  Hingis  is  learning;  ear- 
lier this  year,  in  Australia, 
she  had  reached  her  first 
Grand  Slam  quarter-final,  los- 
ing to  South  Africa's  Amanda 
Coetzer,  who  has  also  moved 
into  the  last  eight  here.  Then, 
in  the  Italian  Open,  Hingis 
made  it  to  her  first  major 
final.  There  she  lost  to  Con- 
chi  ta  Martinez,  but  she  had 
beaten  Graf  on  the  way. 

Yesterday  she  broke  back 
against  Sanchez  Vicario, 
playing  some  wonderfully 
fluid  and  mature  tenuis 
against  an  opponent  who 
never  knows  when  she  is 
beaten.  “I  think  i played 
pretty  smart,”  said  Hingis, 
and  so  she  did.  That  on-court 
temper  remains  a problem  to 
be  addressed,  but  this  was. 
alter  all,  an  extremely  tense 
match  against  an  opponent 
who  is  well  known  for  her 
gamesmanship. 

Needless  to  say  Sanchez  Vi- 
cario had  her  own  moments 
of  glaring  at  line  judges,  at 
one  stage  standing  at  the  back 
of  the  court  for  a full  minute 
after  Hingis  took  a 4-3  lead 
having  benefited  herself  from 
an  overruled  call,  this  time  a 
correct  one.  but  one  the  Span- 
iard could  not  believe. 

Hingis  broke  serve  again 
for  5-3.  lost  her  own  rather 
nervously  but  then  disposed 
of  her  opponent  instantly 
breaking  into  a jubilant  jig. 
Sanchez  Vicario's  handshake 
was  perfunctory'- 

Anna  Kournikova,  the 
other  15-year-old  playing  yes- 
terday. was  altogether  less 
successful,  but  then  she  is  far 
less  experienced.  The  young 
Russian  lost  6-2,  6-1  to  Graf, 
the  top  seed.  Koumikova's 
time  will  come  soon  enough. 


Backhanded  compliment . . . Hingis  on  the  way  to  heating  Sanchez  Vicario  richard  drew 


Ice  Hockey 

Hawks’  Milhench  appeals  against  ban  for  ’physical  abuse’  of  referee 


Vic  BatcheMer 


THE  Kingston  Hawks' 
coach  Keith  Milhench  is 
the  subject  of  a disciplinary 
investigation  but  will  appeal 
against  an  automatic  two- 
match  ban  from  the  bench 
after  a stormy  end  to  their 
Benson  and  Hedges  Cup  de- 
feat tay  Newcastle  Cobras  at 
Hull  Ice  Arena  on  Sunday. 

Milhench,  whose  team  lost 
the  Group  A match  6-1.  is  al- 


leged to  have  “physically  | 
abused”  the  referee  Jouni 
Lehtooen  as  the  players  left  j 
the  ice  after  the  final  buzzer,  j 
The  Finn  had  sent  off  five  j 
players  during  the  game,  two  ! 
Hawks  and  three  Cobras.  j 

Newcastle's  Mike  Bodnar-  j 
chuk  and  Kingston's  Mark  j 
Hazlehurst  were  the  last  to 
go,  after  a brawl  five  minutes 
from  time  with  the  visitors 
5-1  up.  Then,  after  Markku 
KyUonen  scored  to  complete 
the  Cobras’  win  and  the 


buzzer  sounded,  Milhench  ap- 
proached the  referee. 

The  referee  alleged  he  was 
‘•physically  abused"  but  yes- 
terday the  Hawks'  coach 
claimed:  "I  didn't  touch  him. 
There's  an  official  complaint 
Ion  the  refereeing]  gone  to  the 
BIHA  this  morning.''  He  said 
it  included  an  appeal  against 
the  two-match  “gross  miscon- 
duct” penalty  assessed  by  the 
referee. 

“The  refereeing  was  bru- 
tal” Milhench  went  on.  "I 


was  unhappy  with  the  stan- 
dard, so  was  {the  Newcastle 
coach  Rick]  Brebant  They 
didn't  seem  to  get  anything 
right  Brebant  [also  sent  off 
five  minutes  from  time]  didn't 
deserve  to  go;  I’m  even  stick- 
ing up  for  Newcastle  there. 

“Verbally  I should  have 
been  thrown  out  I admit  that 
But  there  was  absolutely  no 
physical  contact  between  us.” 

However,  the  BIHA  disci- 
plinary chairman  Frank 
Dempster,  confirming  the  sea- 


son's first  major  investiga- 
tion, said  that  verbal  abuse 
alone  constituted  gross  mis- 
conduct and  carried  a mini- 
mum two-match  suspension. 

Another  unhappy  coach. 
John  Lawless,  saw  his  Man- 
chester Storm  side  outclassed 
at  Cardiff  where  the  home 
side  won  5-1.  “We've  got  so 
much  work  to  do."  said  Law- 
less. Tm  not  happy  with 
most  of  the  players'  perfor- 
mances; everyone  has  got  to 
improve." 


SPORTS  NEWS  13 


Racing 


Jockey  Club  in 

safety  dispute 


Chief  medical  officer  resigns  over  Southwell 
use  of  paramedics.  Chris  Hawkins  reports 


Following  the  death 

of  the  jockey  Richard 
Davis  in  a fall  at 
Southwell  in  July 
there  has  been  concern  about 
whether  the  Jockey  Club  is 
taking  racecourse  safety  seri- 
ously enough. 

It  is  not  just  the  media 
which  has  expressed  doubts, 
but  the  Jockey  Club's  chief 
medical  advisor.  Dr  Michael 
Turner,  who  says  he  will 
resign  at  the  end  of  this  year. 

Turner  feels  he  has  not  had 
the  backing  of  the  Jockey 
Club  on  safety  matters,  some- 
thing which  has  come  to  a 
head  over  his  recommenda- 
tion that  Southwell's  August 
Bank  Holiday  meeting  should 
not  have  taken  place. 

“Despite  my  reservations 
the  Jockey  Club  said  that  rac- 
ing should  go  ahead,”  ex- 
pained  Turner.  “I  have  told 
the  Jockey  Club  I cannot  en- 
dorse their  action  and  I pro- 
pose to  stop  working  for  them 
at  the  end  of  the  year. 

“Why  should  I continue  to 
advance  the  cause  of  safety  if 
that’s  not  what  people  want? 
Why  should  1 bang  my  head 
against  a brick  wall  — I think 
the  sport  and  I have  come  to  a 
parting  of  the  road.  Jockeys’ 
lives  are  cm  the  line,  not  the 
stewards'  or  mine.1' 

The  Southwell  controversy 
centres  on  the  use  by  the  race- 
course of  a private  ambulance 
company  "Ambulink"  rather 
than  National  Health 
ambulances. 

Turner  found  that  not  all 
Ambulink  paramedics  are 
National  Health- trained  as 
stipulated  and,  therefore, 
reported  the  matter  to  the 
Jockey  Club. 

Southwell  staged  a meeting 
on  August  16  with  Ambulink 
in  attendance,  but  were  told 
they  could  not  race  on  Bank 
Holiday  Monday  (August  26) 
unless  National  Health  ambu- 
lances were  operating. 

Turner's  complaint  is  that 
the  Jockey  Club  allowed  the 
meeting  to  take  place  purely 
on  an  assurance  from  South- 
well  that  they  would  comply 
— without  any  inspection 
being  insisted  upon. 

Ron  Muddle,  chairman  of 
Southwell,  defended  his  posi- 
tion. commenting:  “Our  medi- 
cal service  is  absolutely  first 
class  and  I can  assure  you  Dr 
David  Layfield,  our  own  med- 
ical officer,  believes  it  to  be  so 
too. 

'The  point  of  issue  is  a 
technicality  and  to  a degree 
we  are  in  the  hands  of  Ambu- 
link on  this  matter.  We  have 
been  using  them  in  all  good 


faith,  ru  bet  no  other  race- 
course has  got  a clue  about 
the  credentials  of  their  ambu- 
lance staff. 

But  for  the  last  meeting  on 
Bank  Holiday  Monday  we  did 
not  use  Ambulink  and  as  de- 
manded  by  Dr  Turner  had 
National  Health  ambulances 
as  we  will  do  next  Monday 
which  is  our  last  meeting  for 
two  months." 

The  Jockey  Club  has  no  re- 
cord  of  which  courses  use  out- 
side ambulance  services  and 
does  not  exercise  any  juris- 
diction as  “it  is  up  to  the 
courses  to  abide  by  the  Gen- 
eral Instructions  on  medical 
services.” 

From  now  on  this  is  an  area 
which  needs  to  be  closely 
monitored  and  what  could  be 
called  the  Jockey  Club’s  lais- 
sez-faire approach  sums  up 
Turner’s  concern. 

Michael  Caulfield,  secre- 
tary of  the  Jockeys'  Associa- 
tion, is  particularly  anxious 
and  commented:  "We  will  be 
seeking  assurances  from  the 
Jockey  Club  that  their  in- 
structions are  being  adhered 
to  and  that  the  highest  level  of 
medical  service  is  being  of- 
fered to  jockeys. 

"Dr  Turner's  resignation 
came  as  a shock;  we  had  no 
idea  he  had  encountered  diffi- 
culties with  the  Jockey  Club. 


“He  has  done  much  to  im- 
prove standards  and  bis  role 
is  clearly  very  demanding.  In 
view  of  this  his  Job  descrip- 
tion may  need  reviewing  with 
discussion  about  whether  it 
should  be  full  tune.” 

Turner,  who  has  been  in 
the  job  since  October  1992 
when  Dr  Rodney  O'Donnell 
resigned,  currently  spends 
two  or  three  days  a week  at 
the  Jockey  Club. 

Whether  he  would  relent  if 
offered  a full-time  positioln 
must  be  doubtful  as  he  is  also 
medical  advisor  to  the  Lawn 
Tennis  Association  and  has  a 
private  practice. 

He  has  not  been  above 
reproach  himself,  however, 
and  some  jockeys  believe  he 
does  not  make  himself  avail- 
able often  enough  to  give  indi- 
vidual advice,  but  rather  that 
he  sees  his  role  principally  as 
making  and  carrying  out 
policy. 

Last  night  the  Jockey  Club, 
seemingly  nonplussed  by 
Turner's  actions,  issued  a 
terse  statement  which  read: 
“Discussions  clarifying  Dr 
Turner's  posLtion  as  chief 
medical  officer  are 
continuing." 

Robert  Whaley-Cohen 
added:  “As  the  Racecourse 
Steward  I believe  totally  that 
the  safety  of  horse  and  rider 
takes  prcedence  over  every 
other  factor  and  it  is  the  sig- 
nificant theme  which  runs 
through  all  the  Jockey  Club’s 
regulatory  work." 


Classic  Cliche  looks  set  to  carry 
top  weight  in  Melbourne  Cup 


THE  Australian  handicap- 
f per  has  taken  no  chances 
with  British  entries  in  the 
Melbourne  Cnp  to  be  ran 
on  November  5 and  ha* 
given  Classic  Cliche,  the 
Ascot  Gold  Cup  winner,  top 
weight  of  9st  9lb,  writes 
Chris  Hawkins 

Neither  has  any  mercy 
been  shown  to  Doable  Trig- 
ger, 17th  in  the  race  last 
year,  who  has  9st  61b,  while 
the  1993  winner  Vintage 
Crop  is  on  9st  2ib. 

But  Simon  Crisford.  Go- 
dolphin  racing  manager, 
has  not  ruled  out  the  possi- 
bility of  Classic  Cliche 
running. 

“He'll  go  for  the  Arc  first 
and  then  we’ll  decide 
whether  be  goes  to  Mel- 
bourne or  to  Toronto  for 
the  Breeders’  Cnp,"  said 
Crisford. 

Double  Trigger  is  un- 
likely to  run  according  to 
his  trainer.  Mark  John- 
ston, who  said:  “He’s  not 
been  fairly  treated  and 


there  is  no  incentive  to  go 
unless  we  get  sponsorship." 

Double  Eclipse.  Trigger’s 
full-brother,  has  also  been 
entered,  bat  Is  considered 
even  more  doubtful.  He  is 
injured  and  unlikely  to  run 
again  this  season. 

Celeric  (8st  9lb)  is  an- 
other doubtful  runner,  bat 
lan  Balding  is  optmistic 
that  Grey  Shot,  who  Is  on 
the  same  mark,  will  take 
his  chance. 

Dermot  Weld  has  not 
ruled  ont  a fourth  run  in 
the  race  for  Vintage  Crop, 
although  he  thinks  for  a 10- 
year-old  his  horse  has  been 
given  “plenty  of  weight” 

At  Pontefract  this  after- 
noon Kristai's  Paradise 
(4.45)  is  napped  in  the  Phil 
Bull  Conditions  Stakes 
over  two  and  a quarter 
miles. 

He  was  a length  and  a 
half  second  to  Celeric  at 
York  in  July,  which  looks 
appreciably  better  form 
than  his  rivals. 


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Pontefract  runners  and  riders  with  form  guide 


%A9  Snow  Falcon 
3.15  Brutal  Fantasy 
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4.15  Mnriittl  Dnnr 

US  KJUSTAL-8  PARADISE  (nap) 

5.15  Pagwtoy 
5-43  Spnidi  VanCct 


(kean  Lew  naberebatt  to  sprint*.*-  Da 


rdaymi 


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2L45  PONTEFRACT  APPRENTICE  SERIES  (BOUND  4)  LOOTED  STAKES  1m  * (2,331 

101  P-J43C  ASHOVBI(M(CO)TBan»6-?-2 J»  Rwdwrick*  (5)  8 

102  3-0QXC,  LEAP  H THE  DARK  (32)  U.as  L Sdea  I7-M  .T  FatotolffH 

1D3  a&M6J  RECORD  LOWS!  (IB)  U CmpTOn  ta-8- 3 J Bdcnviie 

104  (K053G-  THE  COTTONWOOL  HD  (ZB8)  7 Kersey  -I-*-! PCt*kw(S)9 

103  C-4-51  DB-W3BBSCURISZ(11B)uart!’ TcJ’-wSj  J-5-J XBhodS 

iM  oi-asc  Avuwu(ia)(0)sw<(i*«s-M 

107  4K11D  SHOW  FALCON  (15)  (D)  (BP)  3-6- -2 R«ofca7 

105  Dfi-jro  NOCKTBIAI.{18J(0MaP)U'lJF-ir3»' W-:: FLjwetaa 

10V  4-02X4  WELCOME  ROYALE(IB)  M Tampl-TS  J-B-fi  QRwMawrl 

TOP  FORM DPS,  IM1 TfW  8,  Sow*  Mom  7,  Da-Voan  Canto  A. 


101 

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“*  3U444  BURKS  MANOR  (10) T Barry.  3-7  ...  .. 

208210  CHARLTON  8PRONS  (14)  (D)5  

2S>55  BOHUMCTDM  HOUSE (1«  W 

MS  WAOGA  MOON (52)  J OWilh  ® SSfiT 

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210  511330  DOCKLANDS CARMAOE (13) (CO) N ..ni-arc-e RCoewaaaa 

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214  312141  ABCTONE QUEEN (9HD) P Eva-1  .-’C 

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Carnage,  m-j  Prsikiam,  Mar . __  _ 

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Results 


HAMILTON 

2.15a  1,  SOLFEOUETTO,  M Fefllon 
1»).  2,  Hgtn  Rglit  (6-11:  3.  Cbangad  To 

BaHan  C0-1|.  7 ran.  MO  3L.  £M  BolOTWe 

cijo.Ei.iftca.aaDiuiP-ciw-csF 

2^40: 1 .lUUUORW  ROSE,  OWriOhlfS^lir 

f**|.  2,  Hanry  TNa  H""*  *•  ■*? 

0«<»o  1 10-1).  5-T II  lav  Arasong.  13  m"  '*• 
2 )A  B allay)  Tola.  CB.60.  C2.M.  ti  80.  t2- ™ 
DuOlF  CIBSa  CSF  C49  38  TfrcaSC  144154. 
3.1  Si  I.ICWa  CORAN,  A MbcKbv  14—1  fa  vi: 
2,  Racing  Brenda  <6-1)1  3,  Woearto" 


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Mls”[*l«ui«At  w»,  A MBgoyjggR 
a 1 — - Bow  (7-2  |I  lari:  *1 H 

MdoiE-iL  7-2|T1av Bransisn  Sran. 

H3.  iK.  <D  Haydn  T?1E' 

EJ.50.  C3  *0.  Dual  F:  £32.00.  ZSF.  £19.99. 

J^^lfctfviwE.  s ’Aftjreortta  (7-2 Ja  j:  8, 
VaiiaiRian  Ora  15-2):  3, 1 
a ran  1C  9.  'A  SwmulJ  Tow"  £1.50:  -1 10 

Swga  Ppi'jouj- 

JACKPOT:  EEZ1  70. 

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PLACEPOT4  £1—70 

HEXHAM 

2.00: 1 . ROVALRA»Om. 

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£3  20 

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pccygreondL 


3.45  TWBURM  CARD  SDLUNO  STAKES  1m  21 22,784 

301  S-7'2  SHABANAZ (8)  (0)  (If)  M Vs*  :i-^' — 

302  axes  A2TAAi.ro = mega  

303  5H  ACONORACE(2ai)^TaM,4-5-G ..M 

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ZL- S'  GUSSSTmATlON (81(D). _aBmdaal13 

XCiS  HOUGHTON  VENTURE (28)  i A-9-0  DBSh*2 

r.-u:  iwkud(28)3:;-„.-a4-: jcMdoii 

PROUD BJOQAOBI (22)  = b^--?rr-? 5-3-0 P McCat»(3)  12 

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VIE  HICMFIELD  FIZZ  (3)  C r*  *-9-3  _ — — JtCoEfenoalB 

fr-X4  M ROCK  (20) . *-=-5 0 Ptaffeto  (5)  17 

S2ZZ  HUNZA STORY (B)(D)N-^*.iuM-; 4-9-5  JoRBBBam(7)1 

>:T:  IAOY  PLOY  (22) f.' o’, . SJ38II 4-5-4 0 Mad  13 


j!*i UocM  Tiiaj  3-1  Snc*  fuszn.  T-3Ayunh.*-i  Ce-'.ee^Ci'ie.  f-i «rw, IVe^rn*  s^ra  e. 
i*-i  Reiorauier 

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fleJiroi  (Pcnfetraci  ZmirJ?,'  rrso  gi/ 

SNOW  P ALCOA  3 1 S*.  aways  m rear.  7m  10.  « behind  Pram  :l  Arrs  :V!nis^  iTiHiSi  p 
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307 

308 
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310 

311 

312 

313 

314 

315 

318 
317 

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319 
19  m 

TOP  FORM  TIPS!  Statoanaz  10.  Bmuenwiton  8,  Action  JacUon  7. 

IBSSj  Pina  Emmk»4  9 2 i Fortooa  11-10  (Mm  U Ravatay)  8 m 

SettVnQ:  '-i  *-■  3.Krr«4^>'  Aacn  jaoiser..  7-1  AbaaL  Hi  Rneh.  b-i  ProySBniBCiBr. 

FORM  GUOS -SHABANAZ:  — "U.  SUM.?].!,  we^j  stave  c.w  II  DU  oo  BiUJLZrffio!  3.  tt  beluna 
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VxL  SAFA  DANCER  (22)  E VSJlT!  


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HOUOHTOHVSNntBHi.r^.n  U ts  41 11. 7*1  tel'ifd  Batpare  lYartnoaCi  Ira  sad  hip  tfl. 


4«1  5 TBUPORM  FUTURITY  (CORDTTKHO  STAKES)  2Y0  «f  C8J»4 

401  "5  MQttASMS(13)(CO)4Syre  9-7 

'.  nttstt  ACCORD (2B) (CO) Uni Faruain 9-1 KMonft 

: KHARtR(12)(D)hTh-,-ns=r.^naa»-i  _ RHBal 

2-iA  LARSESSE(20)(C)JcnEerry3-; ■ RbtanW  3 

MUSICAL DANCB1  (13) ESinhsi 9-1  Wftyaa7 

i UUA  (SO]  (D)  l C'-.- 8~  5-70 OlWtot 

IT"  PmFWTRUS3{11»(D)p£«-'W3-= JFC*m2 

TOP  FORM  TIPS:  Hudea*  Daaoar  B,  MB  Aeaonl  7. 

1 899:  Drftoed  Ftaatu*  8 1 0 W R Seriofaoni  3-1  (M  Steam)  4 ran 

D,n-,lir  . ■ ttj, 4.  )-i  l-'-.n  iw:  '-i  Khanr.  5-1  laiqbsm.  6-1  Lure.  B-1  Ngrasins.  12-1 

ae-ers-H. 

fXtmt  oumE -Must  CAL  DANCER:  Soirrea  'eft  a cd  naanmy  Mr  Haul  ran  on  HfilOeliUl  torlong.  Zna 

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1 . -7S7 ; iei  ‘ ■ Ji)L  res  s’  well,  won  Yaroouft  G radn  aftsID)  gL  baxOns  S*y 

pnrLry."-.'!...--  .eAMrs  r-j  oaee  anec  ns:  rautn  rocm  11  out  4tn  cf  s,  S behind  Far  Old  Times 

LOtto^r  J'  L'ie.’  m m :ar.  ran  <n  well.  w»  F:  ikensne  (1  md«D|  nl.  aeaUng  Signs  And  Wcsdera  0. 

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'.'£=e  T5SL held  --  «n.  Tlwra.  6liQDIgfl.taWnsBmbd  Fanwy U area 


4.45  PHU  BUU.  TROPHY  [COHOITIONS  STAKES)  2m  If  B1B*8»  £8,128 
801  -^£>E  ANCHOR  CLEVER  (14)  PFeirewa,  *-9-: K F*laa3 

502  -:-2f44  BAHAHUN  SURSUIE(S2)  R AkenurlT  5-» 

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RA&IA  S Ssirrrsi  5-8-11 — 

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TW*  WRM  TIPS,  KiW»F»  PamOia  8,  ftonoa  Ca«  8. 

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form  QUIDS  - KRISTAL'S  PARADISE:  '_iM  near  if  until  heaoed  11  ont  IflB  on  sama  pace.  2nd  ol  5.  Hi 

m-Tt;  Sre-S  ‘ s-»  *r<;  n-  49>  BAHAMiAN  SlNShise.-  Chased laadara.  rtaden  mar  31  out  monbaaten. 
aHCMOHCLEVER;  w#is  o.  eflw  »e-  3?  mi  r*tm  dansercua,  5h  alT.lll  bwund  Cel  am;  fYort  2»  h*»d 
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£2112  HSU (111(C)(0)  JE>7S8-10-C 

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C--3  POCCnYrodO-ljWjls  >-8-12 Pll  Eddary  9 

2232  KNWra  FATHER  (10)  (D)sHoagasiM-tt Amanda  Baadtea  (8) 

sCCD*  PAflEBOY  (11)  (CO)  P-fsatom  7-9-10  — — SIAwwaalB 

CAYOIS  YAJ4COUS  (9) (t$) W JlUTOlon 5-W RMtalB* 

rtppcFiM  CARAT  (1  Id  71W  WnJ  Samsdai  5-g-7 OUrbtoa  14 

8JUUTO[1fl)CO(W  UnJ  Ramsdan  2-3-7 — 

5*24  S4»TClTY(B1)V/riai||h  V3-7 JilmptoS 

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FTW5TE*S«(«*)(n)lw>'or*,nvw KOariay* 

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818  CO-flUD  QBA»  CHAPEAU  (39)  D Nrenulis  4-0-13  Aim  Cnmaa  13 

817  260  CRUZ  SANTA  (17)  T Barren  3-9-  IS  . ACtaaraecfcB 

BIB  0-Q66F8  PRERLY  (8)  (D)  C Smlltl  3-8-13  S Saadan  13 

TOP  PORN  TIPS:  lOra  8,  Caaara  Yaagout  7,  Pagabay  8. 

1995,  Prtaaa  INupartl  3 7 2 llarlta,  Dwywr  12HI  (H  W Emlaftay)  14  raa 
H»tt*ig.  8-1  Cavers  7 angous  1O-1  Kira.  Fmi  3te>  re.  how  s Yei  Fadter.  Pageboy.  12- 1 Capo  m Cirat  Barar 
PORBI OUDE  - CAVERS  YANGOUS:  Close  uc.  lad  alter  3 unit  13  tail,  can  pare.  3rd  dH.  213  nefmd 
Saryaiad  iFeocar  71  bco  gif 

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FWISTSRRE:  fr*  fay.  tra*M  leidtn  !ec  trietr,  rasaJe  Uxt  no  W(J.  2nd  of  5. 153  BefiavJ  Bawlats  Bey 
(Prnsiiaa  a sk 5 gb 

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CAPTAIN  CARADSNswii  mu  SDide  rever  ungeuus.  i2ui  of  14. 91  Behind  Just  OUlOtoi  [CaricJe  S hep 
SCL 

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'Ponefraa  a lap  gn 


5.45  TWERMH  PERSPECTIVE  AND  RATIUCS  HANDICAP  1m  £4,143 

1 545314  MAPLE  BAY  (3)  (D)A  BJ'ley  7— IP— 0 0 Ffedfanr  (7)  8 

2 QZEOO  SAMBA  SHARPLY  (SB)  (D)  A Hrde  6-9-12 _Jto1toDwVH'(3)1 

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Hammond  after  sprint  treble 


JOHN  HAMMOND,  the 
French  trainer  successful 
in  the  Haydock  Park  Sprint 
Cup  with  Polar  Falcon  in  1991 
and  again  last  year  with  Cher- 
okee Rose,  bids  for  a third  vic- 
tory in  the  race  this  Saturday 
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declared  at  yesterday’s  five- 
day  acceptance  stage  for  die 
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contest. 

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renew  rivalry  with  the  three 
English  horses  who  chased 
him  home  at  Deauville  last 
time  out  when  he  came 
second  to  Anabaa  in  the 
Group  One  Pris  Maurice  de 
Gheest 

Neville  Callaghan's  Dane- 
hih  Dancer,  only  a head  be- 
hind him  in  third,  Iktamal, 
five  lengths  fourth,  and  Blue 
Duster,  threequarters  of  a 


length  fifth,  all  reoppose  on 
the  same  terms. 

David  Loder,  trainer  of 
Blue  Duster,  also  has  the  July 
Cup  runner-up  Lucayan 
Prince  in  the  race  and  a 
stable  spokeswoman  this 
afternoon  confirmed  that 
both  are  intended  runners. 

The  absence  of  Branston 
Abby  is  something  of  a sur- 
prise, but  sbe  was  found  to  be 
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antibiotics. 

Ladbrokes  bet:  3-1  Lucayan 
Prince  and  Miesque’s  Son.  6-1 
Hever  Golf  Rosie,  7-1  Blue 
Duster  and  Danehill  Dancer, 
9-1  Iktamal,  14-1  Catch  The 
Blues,  Mind  Games  and  Ram- 
bling Bear,  16-1  Leap  For  Joy, 
Royal  Applause  and  Titus  Li- 
vius,  25-1  Cool  Jazz. 


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i 


14  SPORTS  NEWS 


The  GoanBan  Tuesday  September  3 1996 


Soccer 


V-  *'  '-  tiii'.Sji'i  ^N_  . 


Captain's  hanl . . . Alan  Shearer  adds  to  his  goal  collection 


in  Moldova 


IT  MIGHT  have  bean  bet- 
ter but  it  could  have  been 
a lot,  lot  worse,  and  at 
least  the  England  plane 
arrived  home  in  one 
piece.  On  balance  Glenn  Hod- 
die  is  entitled  to  feel  satisfied 
with  his  first  weekend’s  prac- 
tical experience  of  life  as 
national  coach. 

Injuries  had  practically 
halved  England's  European 
Championship  *w»iw  and  in 
nmn  or  two  areas,  internation- 
ally speaking,  the  side  that 
played  in  Moldova  on  Sunday 
looked  extremely  raw.  Yet 
England  shook  off  enough 
early-season  stiffness  to  begin 
their  attempt  to  qualify  for 
the  1998  World  Cup  with  a 
comfortable  8-0  victory  over  a 
modest  though  far  from  inept 
Moldovan  side. 

Hoddle.  moreover,  took 
some  minor  irritations  in  his 
stride;  a piece  of  routine  tom- 
foolery from  Paul  Gascoigne 


photograph  "tony  marshall  I and  some  Sun  day-paper  snip- 


ing.from  his  Immediate  pre- 
decessor Terry  Venables 
caused  him  less  concern  than 
the  long  grass  in  Kishinev, 

"The  ball  was  too  soft  and 

die  grass  was  too  Jong,"  com- 
plained Alf  Ramsey  after  one 
nondescript  England  perfor- 
mance in  Greece.  And  In  dis- 
seminating team  information 
to  the  media  Hoddle  has  al- 
ready acquired  Ramsey’s  reti- 
cence but  without  giving 
questioners  the  impression 
that  they  are  indecently  prop- 
ositioning a dowager. 

Where  the  two  part  com- 
pany is  In  their  choice  of  Eng- 
land captain.  Alf  picked 
Bobby  Moore  to  be  a leader  on 
the  field.  Hoddle  has  chosen 
Alan  Shearer  to  lead  the  team 
on  to  foe  field.  And  safe 
though  the  latter  choice 
might  be,  it  is  a bit  like  giving 
the  Agincourt  address  to  a 
speak-your- weight  machine. 

Still.  Shearer  led  the  line 
well  enough  in  Kishinev  and 


after  missing  one  sitter  took 
England's  third  goal  with  a 
tenacity  which  suggested  that 
his  international  famine  was 
unlikely  to  return.  Nick 
Barmby’s  opening  goal,'  how- 
ever. was  foe  best  of  foe 
three.  Paul  Gascoigne's  lopp- 
ing header  two  minutes  later 
could  not  hide  his  obvious 
lack  of  match  fitness. 

Since  Gascoigne  had  played 
only  one  frill  first-team  game 
for  Rangers  after  an  Achilles 
injury  this  was  hardly  sur- 
prising. No  more  surprising, 
in  fact,  than  Saturday's  haul- i 
tag  down  of  Paul  Ince's  pants 
as  the  players  clambered  into 
foe  press  box  during  foe 
Under-23  match  to  get  out  of 
the  rain. 

“It  was  a joke  between  play- 
ers,” said  Hoddle.  “It  was  a 
trivial  thing.  Well  have  a 
chat  about  it  but  it  won't  be 
anything  heavier  because  it 
doesn’t  warrant  it” 

England  Under- 21  and  foe 


3 mission  in  their  stride 

-i*  v -H  fll 


seniors  played  with  three’ de- 
fenders and  wihgbackp  and. 
though  each  match  was  won 
comfortably  in  foe  end,  nei- 
ther back  three  locked  happy 
when  being  opened-  by  neat, 

instinctive  Mriklmron,  pa  g 

Hoddle  thought  foe  length 
of  foe  grass  in  foe  Republican 
Stadium  had  prevented  Eng- 
land playing  at  a quicker 
tempo.  "We  wanted  to  get  the 
ball  into  midfield  quickly,"  be 
explained.  “There  were  times 
when  people  were  available 
but  foe  lads  barf  to  fob*  an  > 
extra  touch,  to  get  the  ball  out 
and  by  then  foe  spaces  had 
been  closed  up.”  ..  ■ 

There  was  a little  more  to 
it  Gary  Neville  looked  a natu- 
ral wing-back  going  forward 
and  contributed  to  two  of  Eng- 
land's goals,  but  defensively 
be  was  unsure  of  his  position: 
tag.  Andy  Btachcliffe.  a left- 
back  who' takes  a mean  cor- 
ner, is  simply  keeping  foe 
place  warm  for  Graeme  Le 


Sanx,- potentially  the  nearest 
thing  to  a whig-back  at  nod- 
dle's disposal 

TheunbuTVenables's  argu- 
ment was  ' that  playing  “full- 1 
hades  in'  this  wide  rote  was  a i 
negative  move  since  it ! 
restricted  foe  number  of  natu- 
ral forwards  tn  any  one  team. 
Hoddle  responded'  by  quoting 

tha  eaomiplp-  nf  flarnwiry  and 

the  honours  they  have  won 
using  a similar  system.  . 

His  difficulty  is  that 
whereas  the  Germans  have 
indeed  been  employing  wing- 
backs  such  as  Paul  Breitner 
and. Manny  Kaltz  over 
past  20  years,  the  -English 
game  is  still  not  breeding  this 
type  of  player.  Lie  Saux  and 
either  erf  the  Neville  brothers 
could  be  foe  answer,  but  Hod- 
dte  stin  does  not  have  a bud- 
ding Zlege  or  Sergi  at  his 

riiwpnwnl 

His  immediate  frustration 
is  common  to  new  England' 
coaches  and  managers.  Td 


like  to  be  able  to  gjve  the  play- 
ers a day  off  and  then  get  out 
on  the  training  just  going 
through  foe  tilings  that  are 
fresh  in  my  mind,"  he  said. 

Instead  he  now  has  to  sit  on 

his  hands  before  announcing 

the  squad  for  the  World  Cup 
match  against  Poland  at 
Wembley  on  October  9,  know- 
ing that  his  Initial  plarna  will 
almost  certainly  suffer  "crtu 
■through  injuries  and  with- 
drawals. So  long  as  Shearer 
and  lnc8  are  not  among  fogm. 
all  should  be  reasonably  well 

Hoddle  was  asked  If  he 
found  the  prospect  erf  taking 
England  to  Wembley  for  the 
first  time  at  all  daunting. 
“Not  so  long  ago  I was  per- 
forming at  Wembley  myself,” 
be  replied,  “so  it’s  not  quite 
as  daunting  as  it  might  have 
been  for  a few  people  who 
have  had  foe  job  and  who 
hadn't  played  there  for  a long 
time." 

Ouch! 


Premiership:  Sheffield  Wednesday  2,  Leicester  City  1 

Booth  keeps  up 
perfect  record 


David  Hopps 

LIFE  will  get  no  better 
than  this  for  Sheffield 
Wednesday  this  sea- 
son. A hard-won  vic- 
tory against  Leicester  City  at 
Hillsborough,  last  night  left 
them  five  points  clear  in  the 
Premiership  which,  in  South 
Yorkshire  at  least,  will  sug- 
gest there  is  nowt  as  queer  as 
footballing  folk.  The  striker 
who  will  again  take  many  of 
the  plaudits  is  Richie  Hum- 
phreys, who  is  rapidly  becom- 
ing the  surprise  packet  of  the 
season. 

The  season  is  barely  a fort- 
night old  and  Humphreys, 
who  is  not  much  older,  is  al- 
ready specialising  in  the  spec- 
tacular. Bedded  in  during  a 
pre-season  tour  of  Holland, 
this  south  Yorkshire  lad  has 
scored  In  three  of  Wednes- 
day’s four  Premiership 
matches.  Last  night's  effort, 
the  first  of  the  night  after  24 
minutes,  was  a controlled  run 
from  half-way  followed  by  a 
sumptuous  chip  from  four 
yards  outside  the  area  as 
Leicester's  central  defender 
Julian  Watts  back-pedalled. 

The  experience  of  Carlisle 
United  and  Bristol  City,  two 
examples  of  clubs  who  led  the 
old  First  Division  early  in  foe 
season  only  to  be  relegated, 
has  serves  as  a warning  to 
Wednesday  not  to  become 
over-excited  at  the  first 


flushes  of  youth  but  Hum- 
phreys and  his  like  have 
given  their  manager  David 
Pleat  a necessary  lift  after  the 
trials  of  last  season. 

In  winning  their  first  three 
matches  Wednesday  have  dis- 
played a more  vigorous  edge 
compared  to  foe  anaemic  col- 
lection of  elder  statesmen  that 
survived  only  on  the  final  day 
of  last  season.  “Most  un-Pleat 
like”  was  the  lugubrious  as- 
sessment of  Leeds  United's 
manager  Howard  Wilkinson 
after  Wednesday's  win  at  El- 
land  Road  last  week.  And 
their  energy  is  undeniable. 

Leicester's  modest  reputa- 
tion, coupled  with  Monday 
night  kick-offs,  left  the  ter- 
races half-empty  but  they 
began  smoothly  and  might 
have  established  a I5tb- min- 
ute lead.  Whitlow  made  un- 
gainly progress  to  the  left 
goal-line  and,  when  Lennon's,  i 
shot  struck  Collins,  the  ball 
rebounded  off  Taylor  into  the 
hands  of  Pressman. 

Humphreys’  outstanding 
opener  was  matched  by  Clar- 
ldge's  equaliser  three  min- 
utes later.  Claridge,  all  bone 
and  bristle,  had  emphasised 
his  knack  for  the  spectacular 
at  Birmingham  last  season, 
and  his  right-footed  shot  from 
20  yards  after  the  ball  was 
played  in  from  the  left  was 
much  in  keeping  with  that 

Whereas  the  old  Wednesday 
might  have  weaved  them- 
selves into  ever-greater  confu- 


sion, the  new  crop  was  not 
averse  to  an  occasionally 
mare  direct  solution.  It  paid 
off  as  they  took  the  lead  again 
after  50  minutes. 

Nolan's  long  ball  from  the 
left  was  collected  by  Booth,  a 
£2.7  million  summer  signing 
from  Huddersfield,  whose 
arrival  might  have  been  over- 
shadowed by  Humphreys  but 
whose  impression  has  been 
sound  nevertheless.  Booth 
required  only  one  touch  be- 
fore sweeping  the  ball  past 
Keller  as  Leicester's  vulnera- 
bility at  centre-back  bore 
echoes  of  their  Premiership 
failure  two  seasons  ago. 

The  return  of  Hirst  had  en- 
tailed that  Humphreys  was 
employed  in  a mare  with- 
drawn role  behind  the  front 
two  and,  25  minutes  from 
time,  he  was  retired  in  favour 
of  Sheridan,  perhaps  with  foe 
hope  that  Wednesday  would 
not  concede  so  much  posses- 
sion to  a combative  Leicester 
midfield  in  which  the  red- 
headed Taylor  and  shock- 
blond  Lennon  provided  a col- 
ourful contrast.  Twenty 
minutes  from  time  Leicester 
introduced  their  new  striker 
Marshall,  £800,000  from  Ips- 
wich. but  to  no  avail 

SdaNlald  Wadnaarfayt  Praasman; 
Atherton.  Walker.  Siefenovle-  Nolan. 
miMhfltuifn.  Colima.  Banker.  Humphreys 
(Sheridan.  Minin).  Him  (Bright  77). 
Boo*. 

Laioaatar  CSn  Kalian  Grayson.  Prior. 
Watia  (Parker.  70).  Walah.  Whitlow. 
Lennon.  Taylor  (Marshall.  70),  Izzat, 
Cland on.  Ilaitoy. 

■tofaraw  G WHbud  (Worthtno). 


Marksman’s  escape  — Andy  Booth,  who  scored  the  winner,  loses  Leicester  defenders  in  another  Wednesday  attack  last  night 


MICHAEL  STEELE 


Hartford  ready 
to  turn  down  Lee 


Ian  Ross 

EIGHT  days  after  Alan 
Ball  resigned  as  man- 
ager, the  Manchester 
City  chairman  Francis  Lee 
may  find  tonight  that  his 
search  for  a successor  has  j 
turned  into  a crisis. 

After  seeing  so  many  blg- 
name  managers  ignore  a 
generously  baited  hook, 
Lee  was  ready  to  gamble  on 
appointing  Asa  Hartford, 
Ball's  assistant,  whose 
managerial  CV  includes 
dismissals  by  Stockport 
County  and  Shrewsbury - 
Bat  yesterday  Hartford, 
as  he  prepared  his  players 
for  tonight's  First  Division 
match  against  Charlton 
Athletic  at  Maine  Road,  all 
but  joined  foe  queue  of 
those  determined  not  to 
succeed  Ball. 

“1  have  a contract  as  as- 
sistant manager  and  I am 
just  taking  temporary 
charge  until  someone  is 
brought  in,"  he  said.  ‘T 


have  no  real  desire  to  go  for 
the  job  and  I have  not  been 
approached.  People  have 
asked  me  if  I am  Interested 
and  I have  said  no. 

**I  am  assistant  and  I 
would  like  to  remain  as 
such.  But  the  problem  is 
that  a new  manager  might 
come  in  and  I could  be  out 
of  work." 

If  City  win  tonight,  how- 
ever, Lee  will  be  in  a posi- 
tion to  use  of  Hartford  the 
familiar  “he  has  lifted  the 
spirits  of  us  all”  speech  so 
beloved  of  chairmen  endur- 
ing sleepless  nights.  Hart- 
ford cannot  be  ruled  out. 

Dave  Watson,  the  Ever- 
ton  captain,  needs  surgery 
to  repair  a hernia  and  will 
be  out  for  five  weeks. 

Southampton's  manager 
Graeme  Souness  has  com- 
pleted the  signing  of  the 
Norway  defender  Klaus 
Lundekvam  from  SK  Brann 
for  £400,000.  He  will  make 
his  debut  against  Notting- 
ham Forest  tomorrow 
night. 


Arsenal 

Aston  Via 

Btrm-Ctty 

Blackburn 

Bolton 

Brentford 

Burnley 

Chelsea 


0$ 

Ipswich  Town 

19 

Sheffield  United  15 

11 

Loads  United 

03 

Sheffield  Wed. 

14 

34 

Leicester  Ctty 

38 

Southhampton 

20 

21 

Liverpool 

04 

Stoke  City 

3D 

38 

Man.  City 

02 

Sunderland 

27 

34 

Man.  United 

01 

Tottenham  Hot 

07 

31 

Middlesbrough 

23 

West  Ham 

12 

OB 

MOwall 

29 

Wimbledon 

26 

17 

Newcastle  Utd 

16 

Wolves 

37 

28 

Norwich  City 

16 

Celtic 

09 

OS 

hlottm.  Forest 

13 

Rangers 

10 

32 

OPR 

23 

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Sheringham 
blow  adds  to 
Spurs’  woes 

TEDDY  Sheringham,  Tot- 
tenham's England  striker, 
has  been  ruled  out  for  up  to 
three  weeks,  adding  to  an  in- 
jury crisis  which  leaves  the 
manager  Gerry  Francis  with- 
out both  his  main  strikers  for 
tomorrow  night’s  Premier- 
ship match  at  Wimbledon. 

With  Chris  Armstrong  still 
recovering  from  a damaged 
ankle,  the  l&-year-old  Rory 
Alien  may  be  given  his  debut 
at  Selhurst  Park. 

To  add  to  Francis's  prob- 
lems, the  goalkeeper  lan 
Walker  damaged  hiw  back 
while  with  the  England  squad 
in  Moldova  and  the  mid- 
fielder Darren  Anderton,  who 
missed  the  England  game 
after  straining  a groin  mus- 
cle, is  also  doubtful 
The  only  bright  spot  for 
Francis  yesterday  was  foe 
arrival  from  Brondby  of  the 
£1.65  million  midfielder  Allan 
Nielsen,  who  scored  for  Den- 
mark in  their  2-0  World  Cup 
win  in  Slovenia. 

The  teeds  manager  Howard 
Wilkinson  has  failed  to  sign 
Spain's  sweeper  Miguel  Na- 
dal.  Wilkinson  said  yester- 
day: “We  have  been  working 
away  quietly  over  the  past 
few  days  and  were  quite  opti- 
mistic. but  I have  been  In- 
formed that  he  has  decided  to 
join  another  Spanish  club.  We 
have  found  out,  as  1 believe 
Manchester  United  did.  that 
these  people  can  command 
quite  considerable  contracts.1' 

Manchester  United,  mean- 
while, are  resigned  to  being 
without  Roy  Keane  for  their 
Champions'  League  clash 
with  Juventus  next  week  The 
midfielder  had  knee  surgery  a 
fortnight  ago.  United  will  also 
be  without  Eric  Cantona,  sus- 
pended for  one  game  after 
picking  up  two  yellow  cards 
when  United  were  last  in- 
volved In  the  competition  two 
seasons  ago, 

Middlesbrough  are  pre- 
pared to  listen  to  offers  for 
their  Norwegian  interna- 
tional striker  Jan  Fjortaft 
Newcastle's  Fausttao  As* 
prilla  scored  a hat-trick  as  Co- 
lombia beat  Chile  4-1  In  a 
World  Cup  qualifying  match 
on  Sunday. 


Results 


Soccer 

FA  CARUNO  PREMIERSHIP 


SMf  W*4  II)  a 

Humphries  25 
Boom  Si 


wrata  (1)1 
Ctoridga  28 
17.857 


OM  VAUXHALL.  CONFEHEMCB  Hattfnfc. 
for<)  3.  Nonimid*  0:  Ktodonnlnatar  1.  Sta- 
lybridgs  I;  Stevenage  2.  Walling  1. 
inUBOftD  LKAOUfb  Premier  DMatam 
EraJey  2.  Hyde  4. 

DR  MARTENS  LEAGUE]  Premier  Dtw- 
Hm  Worcester  2.  Burton  1. 

PONTIUS  LEA  OUT  Premier  DMdem 
Blackburn  1.  Liverpool  0 
AVON  INSURANCE  COMBINATION: 
■Wat  DhUoK  C Palace  a West  Ham  0: 
Otford  UR)  4,  OPR  0:  Tottenham  z Bristol 
C v 

WORLD  CUP  QUALIFIERS*  Colombia  4. 
Chile  1:  Argentina  1,  Paraguay  1:  Bolfuta  0. 
Peru  O.  ' 

TRANSFER]  Kevin  McGowne.  <Mandar, 
St  Johnstone  to  Kilmarnock,  tribunal. 


OREATEH  MILWAUKEE  OPBHi  Final 
•core#  lUS  unless  stated)-  2BS  L Roberta 
66.65,  66,6a  J Kolty  67.  68, 68.  64,  280  A 
Magee  68.  70.  65.  M;  S Stricter  88.  67.  66. 
67:  J Parnovflc  (3 we)  65.  fia.  63.  72:  N 
Hanke  62. 88. 67. 7t.  SOT  0 Browns  67. 67. 
68. 64:  □ Ogrin  89. 66.  66. 67.  US  F Funk 
«.  66  67.  66.  S Lowy  70.  64.  67,  67:  D 
Waldorf  65.  65. 70. 8B.  300  J Uagtonea  68. 
70.68.  63:  B Mayfair  67.  68.  70.  64;  C Rose 
70.  66.  67,  66.  K Green  67.  SB.  66.  87:  W 
Austin  71. 66.  t&  68:  B Andrade  65,  66.  67. 
69:  B Ciaar  09.  68.  66. 68:  F Lleldlter  68. 68, 
64  69: 3 Appleby  88  66. 64.  TO:  B Eates  64. 
67.67.  71. 

Tennis 

OB  OPEN  (Now  York).  Hob  Third  nmfc 
T Homan  (SB)  bl  T Martin  (US!  6-2.  7-6. 
6-4.  Aoth  1 eancF  J Santa  (Sp)  bt  A 
Boa  tech  (Fr)  0-4.  7-8.  7-6. 

Woni  Fourth  rwmdi  L WM  (US)  bt  L 
Davenport  |USj  6-2.  3-6.  6-0.  J WUanra 
(Autt  M R Grande  (It)  6-0.  6-3.  M Mn*a 
(&w<lz)  bt  A Sanchez  Vteark)  (So)  6-1. 3-8. 
6-4;  * Qraf  (Gar)  W A KOMrnOwva  (Bus) 
6-2.  B-1.  meed  JBnfaUai  Quartst-Boate 
R MoQtdltanrD  MaaPtaraon  (Aus)  bt  H 
Gukova/C  Suit  (CD  6-4.  7 -a  M BoOearaf/ 
H Laoah  (Nattl/USI  bt  B Twlud/P  KJWemi 
(Fr/Aus)  art*  L HsymandTP  CWbndtn 
(US)  U C IMS  Talbot  (NMWSA)  t-S.  0-4. 

American  Football 

HFU  Battmore  19.  Oakland  14  Carolina 
2D.  Atlanta  6;  Houston  19.  Kanaaa  CBy-M: 
Intfianapolls  BO,  Arizona  13:  Jacksonville 
34.  PitHMrgn  9.  Minnesota  17.  Detroit  u 
Si  Louis  26.  cnclonui  16;  WmUngton  14 
PIMadetotili  17:  Denver  31.  NY  Jots  B. 
Miami  24  New  England  10;  Son  Dingo  SB. 
Seams  7:  San  Franweo  27.  New  Olaere 
11:  Tampa  Bay  3,  Groan  Bay  34  NY  Glenn 
20.  BiAki  23  (ci). 

Baseball 

AMBOCMI LEAGUE  Toronto  2.  Chicago 
4<ln  11);  Dotrod  2,  Ktftta  City  3 (In  13): 
Milwaukee  2,  Mtnnaaato  6.  Texas  & Cleve- 
land & Col  darn  la  4.  New  York  0;  Otodand 
3.  Boston  B.  Seattle  6.  Balilmora  1.  Lead- 
Ing  atuBuiia.  Eaatan  DMMatH  1.  New 
York  (W7B.  L60k  PCLSS9.  GBO).  Z Balll- 
mora  172^4.529-*);  3,  Boston  (70-67- 
C aww at  DMatom  1.  Oavaland 
596-Cl.  2.  Chcjga  (74-64.  £36-6): 
3.  Minnesota  (66-69-436-1310.  Wwtar 
DMAwi  1.  Taras  (77-50-. 56&-QL  Z Sou- 
la  (71-a-Jk»3-0;  3.  OgudsM  (68-73- 
475-1281 

KATtOMAL  LEAGUE]  CatCteUH  I.  Flop 
Ida  6,  ManlPrji  7.  San  Oieca  6:  Pittsburgh 
9 Houston  s New  York  6.  San  Francisco  B 
(In  ID).  Si  Louis  14  Colorado  £:  Chicago  2. 
AttnnM  1 (In  WI.  Pnn adBiphia  6 Los  Anne- 
tos  3.  Landing  atsmthigri  Eaatarn  Dtv 
1.  Atlanta  (W84.  LSI  Pafllfl.  GBO). 
2.  Montreal  <73-62-541-1010-.  % Florida 
M6-71-  4£C-tBS(.  Contra)  DMaient  t 
Houston  (74-64-  KJO-n;-  2.  y (.dim:  172-65 


.626-18):  3,  Chicago  (68-67-.604-4X). 
Weatam  OMaton  1 San  Dingo  (76-62- 
-551-0);  2.  Los  Angetea  (74-B3-J44-t):  3, 
Colorado  (70-66-507-6). 

Bowls 

DOUBLE  CENTURY  ENGLISH  . 
WOMEtPB  CHAMPKMSMPS  (LeamlnB- 
ton)-  TWo  wood  duglwi  Ooertpr-Hnalw 
M AaJrfortMfcdl  M p Cents  14-11;  C 
Anton  MM  Borthwia  16-7;  ATYaraobtV 
Wada  14-13;  K Hawae  bt  R Urn  19-4 
StwHtadsi  Aatai  bt  Ha  was  16-4  Aafa- 
ford-tfuM  bt  Tiuran  14-8.  nnta  Aahtad 
Htdl  bt  Anton  14-13.  TWptaa 1 Snoond 
rooMb  Otdonl  CHy  A Couwty  (k  Hawes) 
bt  ShankUn  19-12:  Oidonl  City  8 County  0 
Molynaux)  bt  Ktogstand  23-14  PvntiH, 
Swtatai  U Wald  notion]  23-4  CartMa 
EdanaMa  bt  Uartow  39-18;  lahdoa 
WaaOaoat  M Hatton  20-7;  BMdocfc  H 
Baas,  Alton  16-13.  tttanorhd  Ph,  Luton  M 
Lowastod  RaDway  21-16:  Norton,  Stooto- 
ten  bt  Northllaet  22-7:  Pw*,  Lincoln  bt 
Avanua,  Leamington  25-6:  Wahradwa, 
PlAeitioifOra^i  bl  Langford  2>-«:  Harris 
Pk,  CocttarmoaUi  bl  Waatmlnstar  Brack- 
toy  13-12;  HBBaaOnn  bt  SOUttiparl  30-4; 
.Habnalny  bl  Sutton  15-14:  Parahawi  bt 
Foss  away  20-11.  Field  Mb*,  Worthing 
bt  NeecUngwrth  18-15.  DUa  bt  Topahani 
24-1  a 


Ice  Hockey 


Fixtures 


v Saffron  Waktoa  Tn;  Comar  Row  4 Rom- 
tant  v Layton  Penruun;  Clacton  Tn  v Ruto- 
Hp  Manor;  Baridng  v Concord  Rngnr 
Kingsbury  Tn  v Ertth  8 Batvsdara;  Oale 
wood  v Southwidc  RaAin  v Hattaham  Tn; 
ChattiamT"  y WtiytatoMa;  CWpaMad  vCo- 
rimbtan  Caauato:  Andover  v MmbarnaTn.. 
a«  vmixhau  comma  (7*6}: 

Altrincham  v Moracamba;  Bromagrova  v 
KaBartng:  Dover  v WoMng;  Faniboniugh  v 
Hayeto  Halltn  v Gateshead:  Ruahdan  4 
□'moods  v Macdacflald:  Btoogti  v Bath; 
Tellonl  v Southoon. 

INKBONO  IXAOOB  Preaola r DMata 

Chortey  v Barrow;  Cotwyn  Bay  v Bambar 
Bridge;  PricUay  v Boston  Utd;  Martis  v 
Accrington  Stanley;  -Runcorn  v Leak  To: 
Sgennymoor  v Gulaetoy;  WHtan  Alb  v Lan- 


Sport  in  brief  Boxing 


WORLD  CUPs  Sweden  5.  Finland  2;  Can- 
ada 3,  Slovakia  2. 

BENSON  AND  HEDGES  CUPi  Ayr  8.  Tat- 
lord  Z BracteeU  16.  Medway  a CanJHI  B, 
MaiKttaatar  1;  Guttdtord  2.  Baatogstote 
13.  Kingston  1.  Atowcastls  8:  Pwaroorotran 
2.  NotUngham  1£  SoHuill  3.  Sheffield  7. 

Motor  Racing 

VANCOUVER  INDYCARflACEE  T.  M An* 
dram  (US)  Lola  Ford  Casworth;  2,  B Ratial 
(US)  Reynard  Mercedes- Benz:  3.  C FttU- 
pUdl  (Br)  Lola  Ford  Coswortlv  4.  G da 
Perron  (Br)  Reynard  Honda;  6.  A Unaar  Jr 
IU3)  Penate  MereedeeGenz;  a.  B Harts 
(US)  Reynard  Mercedes-Benz:  7.  J Vasaar 
(US)  Reynard  Honda:  8.  A Fernandez  (Br) 
Lola  Honda:  V.  S Goodyear  tCan)  Reynard 
Ford  Casworth;  10,  R Gordon  (US)  Rey- 
nard Ford  Casworth. 


am  Concision  Tn  v 
Droytsden:  Grama  v NotherileW:  Ql  Mar-  ; 
wood  Tn  v Worklngmtr,  Mattocti  Tn  v Lin- 
coln Ufct  Stooksbridge  PS  v Curzgn  Ash-  I 
tore  Wurtmton Tn  v Flbaon;  Workup Tbv  j 
Fnsfwonri  Tn.  ! 

KtS  LEAOUNi  FM  Hviaiora  MaldOO-  , 
head  Utd  vCtM9harnlAd;t4arto<av  Layton  I 
Pannant  Eeoewf  DMataw  Banatoed  Atti 
v Dorking:  Baridng  v Bradman  Tn;  Cttal- 
tom  St  patar  v Wambtoy;  Ctieahunl  v 
WUham  Tk  Hamel  I tompiitoflii  v Gdgwara 
Tn;  Horsham  v TSbury:  Hungarford  Tn  v 
Wars;  LatUtwrtwu  v Egham  Tn:  Met 
Poltee  v Colitor  Row  8 Roratord;  Wlmtoor 
8 Eton  v Ltlgfiton  Tn;  WWenhoe  Tn  v Bed- 
ford Tn.  TMrd  DhUan  Wlngws  & Ftocb- 
lay  v NorBtwtod. 

DR  MARTENS  LBAOUEi  PlWeata  Dtv- 
iahms  Ashford  Tn  v Sudbury  Tn  (7.4S); 
Cambrk>ge  C v Sudnabaunie:  CbaUsnham 
v Attiaratone  (7451;  Dorchaatar  v Crawley 
Tn  (7-4S);  Graatoy  Rwra.v  Halaaowan:  Haa- 
ttnga  v Gravesend  4 N;  Kings  Lynn  v 
CheJmMord  (7*6):  Marthyr  v Salisbury; 
Nuneaton  v Batdock  Tn.  IHMowd  Dfv- 
Mom  Bltoton  Tn  v Ilkeston  Th;  Grantham 
Th  v Shapshed  Dynamo;  HJncUay  Tn  v RC 
Warwick;  Tiro  worth  v Evmhso  Utd. 
Southern  DMatoas  (Sndartord  Tn  v On- 
enceater  Tn:  FWiar  S3  v Oartford;  Margate 
v Tonbridge  Angela:  Newport  Fo-Wv  Fleet 
Trc  Trowbridge  Tn  v Oavedon  Tn;  Water- 
kxjvtn*  v Bashtey;  Westoo-B-Uare  v For- 
aatOrn. 

m-w  eouamn  UAom  rw  dm 
Mora  Aftarton  Cd  v Praacat:  Goode  v 
Blackpool  Rvra:  Buracmigh  v Penrith; 
Chaddenon  v Ktoagrove  Atti:  Eaatwood 
Hanley  v RoaaandaJa  Utd;  Maine  Rd  v 
Hotter  Old  Boys  Nantwtch  Tn  v Traflord; 
Vauxhall  GM  v Darwen. 

nOffiAriOM  MSWMY  WOWTMBBN 
UCAOUKi  Hrat  fEalshmi  Durtton  Fed  v 
Muriorc  EaeJngton  v RTm  NbwcbbKk:  Mot- 
patti  Tn  v Saehtm  RS:  S Bhtaida  v Cux* 
Tn:  W Auckland  v Cheater  Le  BtraWL  * 
HUHIIHH  COSIlfTlES  EAST  LCAOUEi 


(7.30  unioei  stated) 

Soccer 

NATIORWIOE  LEAGUE]  l%wt  Dhdsiani 

Mari  CUy  v 'Chariton  (7.43). 

COCA-COLA  CtIPi  Wn N iwid.  aeaond 
legt  Barnet  v Eratar  p*Sf  Barnsley  v 
Rochdale  (7*5),  Blackpoal  v Scunthorpe; 
Bournamoulh  * Ipswich  (7.459:  BracHord  v 
Shed  (Jm  (7 .45):  Bristol  C v Torquay  [7.4SJ; 
Bumley  v ManaHald  (7*S),  Bury  v Notts  Co 
(7.4(3;  Cambridge!  Utd  v Hereford  (7.45); 
Chaster  v Carlisle;  Che««rfls|d  v Stock- 
port  (7.45);  Crewe  v Port  Vale-,  Fulham  v 
Southend  (7451;  GUbngham  v Swansea; 
Grimsby  v Oldham  (745):  Lmcoln  v Hartte- 
paoL  Northampton  v CarthO  17.45):  Pa*a r- 
baraugh  v Mlttmll;  Ptymouth  v Ebondord 
{745);  fVedton  v Wigan  (745K  Rotherham 
v DvHngton  (7.4^;  Scarfeorough  v Hulk 
TranmerevShrawEbury;  waHord  v WatoaD 
(7.45).  mu  Brom  v Cotohastor  (745L 
Wrexham  y HiKUerattnU:  Wycombe  v 
Reading  (7.43);  Tort  v Doncaster  (745). 
SCOTTISH  COCA-COLA  CUR  TNW 
rawed:  Albton  v HibernUn,  Dundea  Uni  v 
Dundee.  Qroenoc*  Morion  r Aberdeen; 
PmUcfc  v Airdrie;  fit  Jahrtaono  1 Hescta 
(746). 

FA  CUPi  Fribtay  round  rapto see 
Briognorm  Tn  v Washington:  Burwcaugn  v 
Cheadle  Tn:  Castlaun  Gabrtats  v Rosaon- 
dato  Utt  Leigh  RMI  v Belper  Tn.  Adurton 
LR  v UveraMge.  Mama  Rd  v Prudhoa  Tn*. 
Long  Buddy  v Hattwowan  Hanrar*.  Moot 
Om  v Sutton  CoMhoid  Tn:  iuidon  Tn  v 
Fahnnham  Tn.  Great  Yarmouth  Th  v Bum- 
ham  Ramblers.  Was  Tn  v Tribury;  Great 
Watering  Rvrs  v Wr&xtiam:  Newiporitt  Tn 


Rugby  Union 


Cricket 

The  England  batsman  Alis- 
tair Brown  has  been  dropped 
by  Surrey  for  their  crucial 
County  Championship  match 
against  Northamptonshire  at 
The  Oval  He  scared  a Texaco 
Trophy  century  against  India 
in  May  but  has  contributed 
only  three  half-centuries  in 
Surrey's  pursuit  of  tire  title 

thi«t  Rwrann. 

“He  knew  It  was  coming 
and  he  told  me  it  was  a relief 
in  a way,”  said  Surrey’s  man- 
ager Dave  Gilbert  “Browny 
has  written  off  tins  year  as 
one  erf  those  nightmares  every 
cricketer  has.” 

Sailing 

A split  decision  gave  Russell 
Contis  a semi-final  win  over 
Britain’s  Chris  Law  on  his 
way  to  victory  in  the  Brut 
Cup  of  New  York,  his  latest 
triumph  in  the  Grand  Prix  of 
Match  Racing.  He  needs  only 
to  win  the  Bermuda  Gold  Cup 
to  poll  off  an  unprecedented 
grand  slam  of  foe  five  events, 
writes  Bob  Fisher. 

Law  lost  the  first  race  in 
the  best-of-three  semi-final  in 
matched  J-105s  by  only  half 
the  length  of  the  foredeck, 
then  gave  Coutts  the  hardest 
race  and  closest  finish  he  is 
ever  likely  to  have.  Two 
judges  gave  the  win  to  Coutts 
and  one  to  Law. 


Pools  Forecast 


EMIN  v Strati  Wad  (7JJ). 

AVON  mMHtAMCa  COMBINATION? 
Hrat  DMstowi  Brighton  v Southampton 
OLD). 

LEAGUE  OF  WALES,  Bungor  C v Caer- 
narfon Tn.  Hotywoll  v WalEipoot,  faflar 
CabU-TW  v Bata  Vale;  Nwwtown  v Aber- 
yatwyth;  HhytvFHnrTn. 


WELSH  NATIONAL  LEAODEt  PtaC  Oltp- 
Wans  CaanshBly  v Dummnt  (T.lSt  Ebbw 
VUa  v Miwbridyo  GM;  SvmnMA  v New- 
port (70);  Traoretiy  v Bridgand  (7.0). 

Rugby  League 

ACADEMV  CHALUKON  CUP.  Foadior- 

auna  v ananwc. 

Cricket 

BUTTAMNIC  ASSURANCE  COUNTY 
CHAMPIONSHIP  ((our  days:  11.0). 
SotritaMpUnt  Hama  v Glamorgan.  OM 
TrafTorra  Lana  v Umax.  Treat  Btldgat 
Notts  v Lata.  Tauntac  Somarsal  » 
Darbys  Tba  Owb  Surrey  v Normans. 
EEghaalom  Watte  v Eaaaat.  Wai  1 
Wares  vfiUOMW 

SECOND  XI  CMAMnOKEWPt.  NMlh- 
wwgtora  NoribanB  v Glamorgan  Kw>- 
»oriB»t  War  to  v Yorks. 


PACARLHM  PMMttRSH  » 

■ 1 Acton  Nb  • Ararwrd 

X La«li  * Maw  Utd 

a Lhanmat  * Goulhatnpton 

♦ Mdaiabroogh  « Coventry 

B ShatfWad  a Ctiola  aa 

T TaOnhw  « NawcsMto 

8 wimMadon  * svarton 


NAnomrEW  LIAOUE 


O BraEtaEC 

10  Ci  In  ratty 

11  tyiaaiMi 

12  HawC 
ia  OMham 

1«  PottaaiooTh 
is  am 

IS  SotdMnj 

17  Stoka 

18  Ttenmara 

UCONDMVtSK 
18  toaottaraol 

21  BrtODlC 


v HbddomlMd 
v Banwiqy . 
v Staff  UM 
v PortVtoa 
« WattBtom 


v Wateafl 
v Crmra 
v PreEton 
v Ronwriiani 


A warrant  has  been  issued  for 
the  arrest  of  the  former  world 
champion  Julio  Cesar  Chavez 
and  two  of  his  associates.  The 
Mexican  treasury  alleges  that 
they  have  defrauded  the  gov- 
ernment out  of  what  has  been 
reported  as  about  19.5  million 
pesos  (£930,009)  in  tax. 

, Soccer 

Nwankwo  Kanu,  the  Nigerian 
striker  signed  by  Interoazion- 
ale  from  Ajax,  has  been  diag- 
nosed as  having  a heart  prob- 
lem that  could  end  his  career. 

Motor  Racing 

Michael  Andretti  held  off 
Bobby  Rahal  to  win  the  Mol- 
son  Indy  Vancouver  Grand. 
Prix  on  Sunday,  his  second 
-successive  IndyCar  victory. 
He  moves  up  to  second  place 
in  foe  championship  series, 
14  points  behind  Jimmy 
Vasser  with  only  next  Sun- 
day's race  at  Laguna  Seca 
remaining. 

Basketball 

The  Sheffield  Sharks  looked 
in  excellent  shape  for  the 
forthcoming  season  when 
they  won  the  TopNoord  Inter- 
national tournament  at  Gro- 
ningen. Their  new  American 
wing  Voise  Winters  scored  34 
points  and  the  England  powei 
forward  Soger  Huggins  added 
20  points  and  20  rebounds  la 
their  91-88  victory  in  the  final 
over  Autodorozhnik  Saratov. 


* Pwilay 

* BrtmaBtiri 
¥ Note  Go 

V Stockport 
v Peterborough 
v Luton 


THIRD  DmSMM 

SI  BtewN  v Northampton  i 

U DiMnmji  „ sea.taftagh  a 

M r«wil  rlikin  ¥ Torquay  1 

M CrattliF  v Exnor  1 

S9  (Mala  ¥ Swansea  1 

ae  Chaster  ¥ Uaeotti  X 

*7  Dorawtar  ¥ UantfMd  1 

*■  tok®  y Colenester  1 


BELL’S  SCtTmSN  PttEMUMI  UttRStON 

40  OaMc  V Htoemian  1 

41  Harts  v Dundee  (Bd  1 

4E  Kttnsat  y Dudarinline  1 

4S  Mottwrwan  ¥ Itoagais  a 

44  Battn  Rtn  v Abraytoun  a 

SCOTTISH  FIRST  OmStOH 

45  Ctydabanx  - v nHhnw  a 

4®  Itenda  v AlriMa  1 

47  a Mortal  ¥-CAMFtta  1 

4B  St  InttnNcus  v ParOck  1 

48  StttagA  . MM  , 


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The  Guardian  Tuesday  September  3 1996 

Cricket 

Illingworth 
takes  stand 
for  dignity 


SPORTS  NEWS  15 


tional 

ended. 


Mike  Selvey  on  the 

England  chairman’s 
appeal  before  his 
peers  at  Lord’s 


Y THIS  time  next 
week  Raymond  H- 
jlingworth's  associa- 
tion with  lnterna- 
cricket  will  have 
In  what  will  be  his 
final  act  as  chairman  of  selec- 
tors he  will  announce  the 
England  and  England  A win- 
ter touring  parties,  then  sever 
the  ties  and  return  to  life  in 
Farsley  and  Spain. 

Whether  he  will  be  allowed 
to  do  so  with  any  of  the  dig- 
nity that  four  decades  of  ser- 
vice to  the  game  should  have 
earned  is  another  matter. 
Today,  at  Lord's,  he  goes  be- 
fore the  Cricket  Council’s 
four-man  appeals  committee, 
chaired  by  Judge  Desmond 
Perrett  to  contest  the  £2,000 
fine  levied  on  him  by  the  dis- 
cipline committee  of  the  Test 
and  County  Cricket  Board  in 
July  after  it  deemed  him 
guilty  of  bringing  the  game 
into  disrepute  by  what  was 
seen  as  the  untimely  publica- 
tion of  his  book,  One-Man 
Committee. 

When  the  judgment  came, 
Illingworth  was  stung.  For  a 
man  from  whom  the  utter- 
ance of  the  wqrds  “the  drinks 
are  on  me"  would  cause  not 
just  a stampede  of  willing 
takers  but  of  men  in  white 
coats,  two  grand  hurt  (not  to 
mention  his  legal  fees,  which 
in  his  estimation  were  exorbi- 
tant). But  that  paled  alongside 
the  accusation  that  he  had 
somehow  brought  the  game  of 
cricket,  his  lifeblood,  into 
disrepute. 

Illingworth  believes 
strongly  that  the  first  hearing 
was  tantamount  to  a kanga- 
roo court  He  had  not  even 
been  informed  of  its  location, 
being  told  merely  to  report  to 
his  lawyer's  office  at  a speci- 
fied time,  whence  he  would  be 
taken  to  the  hearing.  He  half- 
expected  to  be  blindfolded 
and  stuffed  in  the  boot  of  a 
car. 

Illingworth,  it  was  said,  had 
.betrayed  selectorial  confi- 
dences. although  everyone 
knew  there  was  more  to  it 
than  that.  But  at  the  hearing 
he  was  not  permitted  even  to 
mention  the  name  of  Devon 
Malcolm,  on  whom  the  whole 
issue  really  centred.  Malcolm, 
remember,  had  broken  the 
terms  of  both  his  touring  and 


TCCB  playing  contracts  by 
sounding  off  in  the  Daily  Ex- 
press on  his  return  from  last 
winter’s  tour  of  South  Africa, 
during  which  he  felt  he  had 
been  shabbily  treated  by  Il- 
lingworth and  the  RngtanH 
coaching  staff  At  one  point 
he  strongly  implied  that  Il- 
lingworth’s antipathy  was 
racially  motivated. 

At  his  own  disciplinary 
hearing  Malcolm,  who  by  vir- 
tue of  his  contracts  had  com- 
mitted more  technical 
breaches  than  his  chairman, 
was  reprimanded  but  no 
more.  Illingworth  felt  not  un- 
reasonably, that  he  was  en- 
titled to  answer  what  he 
regarded  as  Malcolm's  slurs, 
and  if  the  publication  of  the 
book  ahead  of  schedule  and 
the  preceding  newspaper  ex- 
tracts were  opportunistic,  in 
truth  they  were  pretty 
harmless. 

Illingworth  is  hoping  that 
he  will  be  able  to  call  on  wit- 
nesses today  to  put  the  record 
straight  in  particular  Peter 
Lever,  whom  Malcolm 
accused  of  trying  to  change 
his  bowling  action  when  the 
coach  was  really  attempting 
no  such  thing.  Lever,  whose 
term  as  the  bowling  coach  in 
the  England  set-up  is  now 
over,  is  so  incensed  at  the 
treatment  Illingworth  has 
received  that  he  has  threat- 
ened to  go  public  if  the  chair- 
man is  not  now  exonerated. 
Illingworth  also  has  the  pow- 
erful backing  of  Sir  Lawrence 
Byford,  the  president  of  York- 
shire Comity  Cricket  Club 
and  former  Chief  Constable  of 
West  Yorkshire. 

For  its  part  the  discipline 
committee,  under  the  chair- 
manship of  Gerard  Elias  QC. 
has  overreacted.  If  a player 
forbidden  by  contract  to  make 
public  statements  not  only 
does  so  but  also  suggests, 
without  evidence  to  support 
it,  that  the  chairman  is  a 
racist  (an  accusation  lately 
withdrawn)  and  is  then 
deemed  not  to  have  brought 
the  game  into  disrepute,  then 
a few  pathetic  details  of  vot- 
ing at  selection  meetings 
hardly  comes  into  the  same 
category. 

One  hopes  that  sanity  will 
prevail  and  Illingworth  can 
then  head  into  the  sunset 
with  dignity  intact  because 
the  TCCB  needs  another  dose 
of  bad  publicity  like  it  needs  a 
club  foot.  It  will  be  far  better 
if  the  TCCB.  ie  the  counties, 
resolves  instead  to  look  at  the 
whole  issue  of  public  pro- 
nouncements by  its  employ- 
ees and  leaves  it  at  that 


County  Championships  Kent  v Nottinghamshire 


Paul  Weaver 
at  Tunbridge  Wells 


Ki 


Scoreboard 


Britannic  Assurance 
County  Championship 

(Final  day  t 

KENT  « NOTT1NQHAUSH1RS 
Tunbridge  WaBsr  Kent  ;2iptsi  bi  Nonmg- 
nimsnirc  i5i  by  seven  wickaB 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE:  Firii  innings  21- 
IP Johnson  W Mt-Cagu*  4-E5I 
KENT:  First  innings  744  iC  L Hooper  56: 
Tcliey  4-fcfi.  Ewans  i-77). 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 
Second  Innings  lover  rnghr  167-51 
C M Tolley  c Marsh  b MiCague  — ..  57 

K P Evans  c Llcng  & McCagus  54 

TW  U Noon  i Marsh  b Ealham  ._  . 2 

M n Bouen  t>  UcCasue  IB 

J *■  Word  noi  out - o 

Extras  ib6.  Ibl3.  w7.  ntTj 30 

Tool  (85.4  overs)  - 343 

FaB  of  wickets  coot:  173.  182,  232. 
BowEng:  McCagun  26.4—1-80-4.  Ealnam 
28-11-52-5.  Fleming  15-3-16-0:  Hoopor 
fi-i-17-1.  Wien  IG-i-26-0. 

KENT 


Tctal  | tor  i 53.5  overs)  - 315 

FSB  of  Mtcfcena  -"*>  *7  163. 

DM  not  bat:  M A Ealharn.  M V naming. 
-tS  a Marsh.  LI  J McCague  T N Wren.  B J 
PfiiBips. 

Bovrllngi  Evans  12-3-36-0.  Bowen 
i4.S-2_r8-2  Tolley  7-1-36-1.  Afford 
20-4-60-Q 

i J D Bond  antf  J h Hams. 


D P Fulton  c Arsher  b Tolley  . ... 
M J Walker  Ibw  b Bowen 

T R ward  not  cut - - 

C L Hooper  c Noon  b Bowen 

N J Ltong  no]  ou>  ■ ■—  ■ — ■ 

Extras  (b4.  Ibti 


_.  GUMJCS  w NORTHANTS 

GlductKlarsnne  iTCws.)  ht  Narth- 
SWonttUra  (4)  By  15  rims. 
^DtMNSTERSHOtEi  F.rsl  innings  133 

tHc  Rumen  Hr, 

"■"■■HMPTQilllllWh  First  innings  190 
ill  52;  Smith  5-681 

Sf™*"*TElWHn»«:  Second  innings 
^9|BCRumm  75c 

7i?Sofl  "■‘“Bs  (overnight  218-91 
4 N Shape  rbw  b Smdti „ 33 

J P Taylor  not  out , ...  i3 

E*Vas  Ibtt.  rbB.  w2.  nbtti 39 

Total  (90.4  overs) _ . 227 

WlGlwidutieantMt. 

W»IS*1  28-3-62-3.  Smith 
A'tayn*  23-6-49-3:  Symonds 
11?-4^71-2:  Ball  11-3-34-0. 

i B Leadtwaier  and  R A White. 


Cricket 

Nev;s  and  Scores 

0891  22  88  + 


Counties  update 


Derbyshire 

Dtahan 


Glamorgan 

GtoucsL 

HampsKiB 

Kant 

Lancs 

Laos. 


31 

32 

33 

34 

35 

36 

37 

38 

39 


Mttdtasex 

Nonhanta. 

Noftmflftani 

Somereet 

Surrey 

Sussex 

Waruacks. 

Worcester 

Vorksnue 


Complete  county  scores 

0891  22  88  30 

“us  C«x39pAm  otif-  WE,  «9p4aNiS  *u 

c’*«h  nas.  ampuro  tw  ms.  1 5 an  i«. 
iPMli:  8ui  XHUNT  0171 7134*73 

IfoeGuardlan 

CiNTERACTTVE 


SUSSEX  w LANCASHIRE 

How  LancaV*re  (ifpsi  s:  Sussex  ie>  try 
line  wirfces. 

SUSSEX:  Firs:  mnir.gs  363  (2  W J A5w> 
111.  V Z Drahm  52;  Auisn  4-37, 
LANCASHIRE!  Firs!  mrnsa  218  ,W  K 
Hegg  S*v 

SUSSEX:  Seand  linings  144 

LANCASHIRE 

Saoend  innings  (avarn,;Rr  53-0 r 

5 P Tit  ha  re  : Moores  3 Law  ...  so 

J E ft  ual  Iran  b Sal  ■$£»>>  . ....  37 

j P Crawley  nst  out .112 

n H Faiftrother  j Kios*  s Salisbury  79 

N J Speak  b Salisbury  1 

-m  waikinscA  c Vi  oils  o Sa.'ifbto  - 1 

T’-Y  K Hegg  nsi  out  lO 

Exnaa  ,oc  log.  wl  nae.i 20 

Total  I'or  5.  72  3 owers.  — SBC 

Fat)  of  widest*  coot!  63  97.  347  349  253. 
Rowling:  Dtak.es  ia-L-56-0:  KirUey 

6 3-0-33-0:  Phillips  10-1-44-0:  Law 
9-3-25-1;  Salisbury  26-6-:  00-4:  Lenitatn 
3-0-T7-C 

YORKSHIRE  « ESSEX 
lies «Hngl ay:  Yorkshire  .22rtsi  K Essex  >8| 
by  93  runs 

YORKSHIRE:  First  innings  ZSC  <C  Wh.ta 
76  M D Mcon  53.  R J Slanay  5Ti 
ESSEX:  Firsl  irmmgs  372  iN  Hussain  159. 
P J Prichard  7T1 

YORKSHIRE!  SewntJ  innings  329  |R  A 
KenJoborougn  rC3  G M Hamilton  67  Such 
B-II81. 


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224 

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41 

52 

223 

74 

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3 

4 

49 

47 

220 

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53 

214 

74 

6 

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32 

45 

182 

14 

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36 

188 

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47 

184 

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27 

53 

IBS 

74 

3 

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34 

52 

153 

75 

4 

6 

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19 

SI 

149 

14 

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6 

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142 

74 

4 

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41 

138 

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5 

30 

47 

124 

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35 

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91 

lovemignc  103-5) 

S D Peiers  f&w  & Stamp 11 

P M Such  c S>«  b Stamp  O 

TR  j Rollins  c White  b Vaughan  ■ — S3 

Id  C lien  tbw  b Slemp  5 

N F Wiliams  c Hamilton  b Sump  — 1 

A P Cowan  not  out O 

Extras  Ib9.  U>4.  nb&i Si 

Total  (60  overaj 14# 

Fall  of  wldrata  owrtj  103  131.  M3.  Mfl 
Dowling:  SUverwood  5-0-17-0.  Hamilton 
e-O-14-0:  Hartley  B-l-20-1;  stomp 
24-7-3B-5:  White  9-C-33-V.  Vaughan 
8-1-14-2. 

County  Table 

Kant  >18)..  . 

Derby*  <14< .. 

Laic*  .71  . .. 

Surrey  - 
E*BO*<|'-  . 

York*  i8( .-  . 

Wark*  ill  .-■■ 

Hidd*  12) — 

CUm 

SuammiSi .. 

sum  raj  - — 

Wore*  |10*—. 

Gtoae*  161  — 

Haut*v13l  — 

L*ue*  (4, 

Nortnla  >31 . 

NOtJ*  ill'  -s.- 
Durbam  1 1- ■ 

1095  positions  in  CrackBB 

FIRST-CLASS  AVERAGES 
Batting 


5 Gangnti 
V J Walker 
GPThcrpe 
SaeetJ  Aiwa: 

>■«  S4&a 
namrvji-haQ 
KMCmran 
U P Maynard 
5 G Li* 

M G 3ewan 
SRTBreaftar 
AJ  Hoiiieaw 
GASMsa 
Sl.ee 

BowQng 

Qualltlcalan  20  eriekats 

Cvr  Mdn  Runs  wntts  Awg 
Z38.4  62  566  38  15.42 
166  5 43  456 

453.3  1281212 

331.4  HO  S’’ 

S3  2 60  838 
3350  85  881 

-.95  1 42  654 

362.4  991071 
691 J 2331268 

302.0  59  942 
517  t 159 1279 

469.1  1131371 
406.9  113H56 
623  4 167  1618 

Second  XI  Championship 

(Fir*!  day  &•  oirae;  rnda)  n 01 
Ciwhnefor^  Essax  144  .0  D J 
66:  Loainerdale  5-23).  Wore®  128-6. 
Derby:  Surrey  180  iDwn  5-32)-  Dewya 
flf-2 


ENT  returned  to  the 
top  of  the  champion- 
ship table  with  a 
leven-wicket  win 
over  Nottinghamshire  here 
yesterday,  but  the  delight  of 
their  supporters  will  be  tem- 
pered by  rumours  that  they 
are  about  ro  lose  Carl  Hooper, 
their  richly  gifted  stroke- 
maker  from  Guyana. 

Ken;  are  aware  that 
Hooper.  29.  is  the  target 
of  several  counties.  Durham, 
for  example,  are  believed 
to  be  ready  to  offer  a 
two-year  deal  worth  about 
£150.000.  They  reckon  Hooper, 
followed  by  India's  Sachin 
Tendulkar,  is  the  overseas 
player  most  likely  to  trans- 


form their  miserable  history. 

Hooper  is  contracted  to 
Kent  until  the  end  of  next  sea- 
son. having  signed  a three- 
year  deal  covering  1994,  1996 
and  1997.  But  he  has,  in  effect, 
a get-out  clause  which  allows 
him  to  renegotiate  personal 
terms  at  the  end  of  each 
season. 

Kent's  cricket  committee 
will  meet  to  discuss  the  situa- 
tion this  week  but  their  secre- 
tary Stuart  Anderson  said 
last  night:  “We  will  not  be 
bounced  into  a hasty  decision 
by  rumour  and  innuendo.  We 
are  discussing  terms  with 
Carl  for  next  season  but  not 
under  threat  that  he  might  go 
elsewhere. 

“After  all  he  is  under  con- 
tract, and  if  we  wanted  to  be 
stubborn  we  could  retain  his 
registration  and  prevent  him 


playing  for  another  county." 
The  club's  Australian  coach 
Daryl  Foster  added:  “He  is 
currently  renegotiating  with 
the  county  to  secure  his  long- 
term future.  I can't  say  any- 
thing else." 

Despite  his  rather  ordinary 
Test  record  Hooper  is  recog- 
nised as  one  of  the  world’s 
most  talented  cricketers,  an 
attacking,  classical  right- 
handed  batsmen,  a noncha- 
lantly effective  off-spin 
bowler  and  an  unusually  ath- 
letic slip  fielder.  He  has  been 
an  outstanding  success  for 
Kent  for  whom  he  has  played 
since  1992- 

As  if  to  give  his  employers  a 
reminder  of  what  they  might 
be  missing,  he  produced  an- 
other bravura  performance 
yesterday,  striking  86  from  80 
deliveries  with  13  fours  and  a 


Waqar  woos  his 
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AQAR  YOUNTS  flies 
home  to  Pakistan 
today  with  a daffo- 
dil implanted  on  his  heart. 

Yesterday  he  was  in  Car- 
diff for  the  first  time  — *Tve 
never  played  here”  — to 
meet  Glamorgan's  beaming 
reception  committee  and 
more  television  crews  and 
reporters  than  he  sees  on  a 
normal  Test-match  day. 

In  his  well-cut  light-brown 
suit  and  obligatory  dark 
glasses  he  looked  like  a 
movie  star.  There  was  as 
much  social  poise  about 
him,  it  seemed,  as  another 
famous  Pakistan  player,  Ma- 
jid Wfran,  once  exuded  on 
these  same  Sophia  Gardens. 

His  agent,  pleased  with 
the  warmth  of  the  princi- 
pality’s embrace,  hovered 
as  Waqar  patiently 
answered  the  routine  ques- 
tions and  went  to  talk  to 
the  numerous  young  fans. 

But  why  had  he  chosen 
Glamorgan,  oat  on  a geo- 
graphical limb?  Three  other 
counties  bad  tried  to  sign 
him;  one,  Surrey,  for  whom 
the  captain  Alec  Stewart 
waged  an  impassioned  insid- 
er’s campaign,  were  offering 
almost  as  much  money. 


The  agent,  Jonathan  Bar- 
nett, said:  “It  was  the  sheer 
enthusiasm  that  Glamor- 
gan showed;  they  went  out 
of  their  way  to  point  out  the 
appeal  of  joining  a side  for 
whom  Viv  Richards  was 
recently  such  a favourite.  It 
wasn’t  just  money.” 

Waqar,  originally  a vil- 
lage boy,  gave  a different  ex- 
planation. “It’s  the  relative 
quiet  of  Wales  that  I know  I 
shall  find  so  attractive.  Lon- 
don was  too  busy  and  noisy. 

“I  want  to  help  Glamor- 
gan win  something  again;  I 
can’t  promise  anything  but 
m try  my  level  best”  Who 
could  ask  for  more  from  a 
24-year-old  who  took  232 
championship  wickets  in  his 
three  years  at  The  Oval? 

Waqar,  who  has  played  in 
41  Tests  and  taken  more 
than  200  wickets,  replaces 
the  West  Indian  Ottis  Gib- 
son and  has  a two-year  deal 
for  nearer  £150,000  than 
the  reported  £200,000. 

His  arcing  swing  and  le- 
thal yorkers  have  already 
begun  to  vie  with  Arms 
Park  topics  in  conversa- 
tion. A Pakistan  supporter 
proclaimed:  “Waqar 

Younis  forever;  he’s  going 
to  be  bigger  down  here  than 
Shirley  Bassey.”  Now  that 
is  going  too  far  — 


Yorkshire  v Essex 

Byas  beats  drum  as  Essex 
subside  on  Yorkshire  grit 


David  Hoppe  at  Headlngley 


DAVID  BYAS  regards  lost 
causes  much  as  he  views 
vegetarians:  he  cannot  be- 
lieve they  really  exist.  But 
when  Yorkshire's  captain 
flung  his  huge  farmer's  fists 
into  the  air  to  celebrate  vic- 
tory over  Essex  yesterday,  it 
was  to  extol  a fightback  that 
left  him  lost  in  admiration. 

Essex  will  struggle  to  ex- 
plain the  98-run  defeat  that 
ended  their  brief  flirtation 
with  the  championship  lead, 
although  Graham  Gooch  did 
pipe  up  something  about  it 
being  “a  funny  old  game". 
After  two  days,  with  York- 
shire only  37  ahead  with  five 
wickets  remaining,  Essex’s 
advancement  had  looked  as- 
sured. Instead  they  were 
roundly  beaten,  one  hour  into 
the  final  day. 

“That  must  be  the  best  rear- 
guard action  I’ve  ever  seen 
from  a Yorkshire  side."  said 
Byas.  “Their  efforts  were  out 
of  this  world.  We  have  suf- 
fered a lot  of  disappointments 
this  season  but  nobody  can 
question  our  character." 

Beaten  by  Lancashire  in 
two  cup  semi-finals,  and  with 
their  own  championship 
hopes  realistically  extin- 
guished, Yorkshire  had 
looked  expended  on  Friday 


evening.  But  the  recovery 
that  was  sparked  on  Saturday 
by  the  batting  of  two  fringe 
players,  Richard  Kettlebor- 
ough  and  Gavin  Hamilton, 
was  completed  by  the  capri- 
cious left-arm  spin  of  Richard 
Stemp,  whose  five  for  38  on  a 
deteriorating  pitch  repre- 
sented his  best  figures  of  the 
season. 

Essex,  resuming  on  IDO  for 
five,  148  short  of  victory, 
could  not  knit  an  innings 
that  had  looked  terminally 
frayed  from  the  moment  Hus- 
sain’s intemperance  against 
Vaughan's  off-spin  had 
brought  his  downfall  with 
stumps  approaching  on  the 
third  day. 

Stemp  made  the  first  ball  of 
the  day  turn  brutally  to  dis- 
miss the  nightwatchman 
Such,  then  Peters  fell  leg-be- 
fore to  a ball  that  rattled 
against  his  shin. 


Yorkshire's  spin  attack  was 
soon  supplemented  by 
Vaughan's  off-spin,  which 
hastened  Essex’s  decline 
when  Rollins  top-edged  a 
sweep  and  White  completed  a 
quickstep  before  dinging  to 
the  most  awkward  of  skiers. 

Stemp  followed  up  by  hav- 
ing Dott  lbw,  and  Yorkshire's 
win  was  completed  by  Hamil- 
ton’s splendid  running  catch 
over  his  shoulder  at  mid-on  to 
dismiss  Williams. 


Rugby  Union 


Premier 

plan  for 
top  clubs 


Rob«t  Armstrong 


Ti 


Following  through  . . . Carl  Hooper  plays  a model  off-drive  at  Tunbridge  Wells  yesterday  on  his  way  to  B6  off  80  balls. 
But  Kent,  back  on  top  of  the  table,  are  concerned  that  the  West  Indian  may  next  be  on  his  way  to  Durham  tom  jenkins 


Hooper  takes  icing  off  top 


languid  six  over  extra-cover 
off  Bowen. 

The  innings  took  him  to 
1,183  championship  runs  for 
the  season  at  an  average  of  51 
in  addition  to  his  catches  and 
26  wickets.  Those  who  look 
for  the  symbolic  may  have 
found  some  meaning  in  the 
fact  that  be  did  not  wear  his 
Kent  helmet  yesterday, 
though  his  decision  to  put  on 
his  West  Indies  headg^r  was 
to  prepare  for  the  interna- 
tional winter  ahead. 

Nottinghamshire  were 
bowled  out  for  242  in  the  last 
over  before  lunch,  with  Eal- 
ham  taking  five  for  52.  This 
set  Kent  a target  of  213  from  a 
minimum  of  65  overs  and, 
after  Hooper's  attack.  Ward 
(54)  and  Llong  (34).  who  hit  a 
six  through  a pavilion  win- 
dow. saw  them  home. 


Iw?12,ttbs  ? island- 
Wales  and  Scotland 
will  shortly  consider 
a plan  to  streamline 
Samrday  matches  by  forming 
a British  Premier  League 
withm  two  or  three  seasons 
IT  radical  proposals  for  th* 
restructuring  of  domestic 
rugby,  which  have  been  put 
forward  m a discussion  docu- 
ment, prove  acceptable  to  the 
clubs  a British  Cup  may  also 
be  introduced,  in  addition  to 
the  existing  national  knock- 
out competitions. 

Support  for  a British  Pre- 
mier League  has  grown 
steadily  within  the  English 
Professional  Rugby  Union 
Clubs  organisation  (Epruc> 
and  First  Division  Rugby  Ltd 
(FDR),  the  company  that  rep- 
resents the  commercial  inter- 
ests of  the  leading  Welsh 
clubs.  The  Scots  have  also 
been  consulted  informally 
hut  the  Irish  clubs,  who  have 
been  kept  in  the  picture,  are 
thought  unlikely  to  take  part 
because  or  the  growing  exo- 
dus to  England  of  their  elite 
players. 

Initially  the  British  Pre- 
mier League  would  comprise 
six  clubs  each  from  England 
and  Wales  plus  three  from 
Scotland.  They  would  play 
one  another  twice  a season, 
home  and  away,  producing  a 
total  of  28  matches  for  each 
club.  The  separate  national 
leagues  in  England,  Wales 
and  Scotland  would  continue 
but  without  the  elite  clubs, 
and  would  operate  as  a feeder 
system  which  would  allow 
three  clubs  — one  from  each 
country  — to  be  promoted 
and  relegated  from  the  Pre- 
mier League  at  the  end  of 
each  season. 

The  growing  band  of 


Motor  Racing 


wealthy  entrepreneurs,  who 
have  invested  millions  of 
pounds  in  the  English  and 
Welsh  clubs  in  the  past  12 
months,  are  keen  to  enhance 
the  spectator  appeal  of  profes- 
sional club  rugby  by  setting 
up  a league  that  would  maxi- 
mise top-quality  fixtures. 
They  believe  that  television 
and  sponsors  will  begin  to  in- 
vest serious  money  in  club 
competitions  only  when  they 
have  eliminated  dull,  one- 
sided matches. 

The  threats  of  breakaways 
made  by  the  English  and 
Welsh  clubs  to  their  respec- 
tive unions  have  been 
sparked  by  persistent  anxi- 
eties over  income,  which  can 
be  only  partly  resolved  by 
substantial  hand-outs  from 
Twickenham  and  the  Welsh 
Rugby  Union.  Irrespective  of 
Whether  the  Clubs  remain 
loyal  to  their  unions  — and 
the  chances  are  that  they  will 
— they  know  they  ran  remain 
solvent  only  by  bringing  their 
best  resources,  the  top  play- 
ers, together  on  the  playing 
field. 

Television  hag  been  ma- 
noeuvring to  gain  long-term 
control  of  international  rugby 
in  Britain  and  Europe  with- 
out necessarily  making  a gen- 
uine commitment  to  promote 
the  club  competitions  which 
are  the  game's  lifeblood. 
Those  investors  who  under- 
stand that  the  clubs  must  find 
a way  to  give  themselves  irre- 
sistible appeal  to  television 
regard  a British  Premier 
League  as  a major  step  in  the 
right  direction. 

• Gloucester's  coaching  di- 
rector Richard  Hill  has  towed 
to  criticism  from  supporters 
and  dropped  his  controversial 
two-tier  selection  policy 
which  brought  a record 
league  defeat  75-19,  at  Harle- 
quins on  Saturday. 


Jordan  may  give 
Hill  another  start 


Alan  Henry 


AMON  HILL  will 
revive  an  old  partner- 
ship if  negotiations  for 
him  to  join  the  Silverstone- 
based  Jordan-Peugeot  team 
prove  successful,  in  the  wake 
of  Frank  Williams’s  decision 
to  dispense  with  his  services. 

Yesterday  it  was  confirmed 
that  the  Jordan  team  had  al- 
ready held  talks  with  the 
world  championship  points 
leader  and  would  be  meeting 
him  again  in  the  near  future. 

Hill  drove  for  Eddie  Jor- 
dan's Formula  3 000  team  in 
1991.  six  years  after  the  Irish- 
man gave  him  his  first  For- 
mula Three  test  outing. 

Yesterday  Jordan's  com- 
mercial manager  Ian  Phillips 
said  Hill  could  be  the  ideal 
person  to  raise  the  team's  pro- 
file and  also  satisfy  Benson  & 
Hedges,  the  team's  key  spon- 
sor. and  Peugeot  their  engine 
supplier. 

We  are  amazed  that  Da- 
mon has  been  released  by 
Williams,  and  up  to  the  week- 
end hadn't  even  considered 
he  would  be  available  for 
1997,”  said  Phillips.  “Now 
that  he  is.  we  must  reappraise 
our  situation  and  plans.” 

Hill  was  reputedly  asking 
more  than  $8  million 
(£5.3  million)  for  a one-year 
retainer  when  his  negotia- 
tions with  Frank  Williams 
foundered,  but  Williams  has 
maHp  it  clear  that  money  was 


not  an  issue.  Driving  for  Jor- 
dan, Hill  would  have  to  accept 
substantially  less. 

The  Jordan  team  are  cur- 
rently in  their  sixth  season  of 
Formula  One  but  lie  a distant 
fifth  in  the  constructors' 
championship  after  13  of  the 
16  races.  After  a promising 
start,  with  Rubens  Barri- 
chello  scoring  fourth  places 
in  the  Argentine  and  Euro- 
pean grands  prix,  the  team’s 
form  has  faded. 

Now  Jordan  are  poised  to 
replace  Barrichello  and  the 
second  driver  Martin  B run- 
die.  Hill  may  come  in;  but  if 
not  his  prospects  of  a deal 
with  another  established 
team  seem  minimal. 

The  Mercedes  motorsport 
manager  Norbert  Haug  has 
played  down  talk  of  a place  in 
the  McLaren  team,  who  al- 
ready have  Hill's  former 
team-mate  David  Coulthard 
driving  for  them.  Two  British 
drivers  in  the  team  is  said  to 
make  little  business  sense  to 
either  McLaren  or  Mercedes. 

That  leaves  the  fledgling 
Stewart  Grand  Prix  team  as 
Hill's  only  realistic  fell-back. 
The  benefits  of  his  expertise 
in  helping  develop  a new  car 
and  team  would  be  consider- 
able. The  only  problem  might 
be  whether  his  presence  in 
the  Stewart  line-up  would  put 
too  much  pressure  on  them  to 
perform  too  well  too  soon. 

Jackie  Stewart  and  his  son 
Paul,  however,  might  feel  that 
that  is  just  what  they  need. 


Rugby League 

Chorley  go  name-dropping 


Paul  Fitzpatrick 


the 


American  Foottiall 

Johnson  and  Baltimore  celebrate  happy  returns 


Mark  Tran  In  Hew  York 


JIMMY  JOHNSON  and  Bal- 
timore made  triumphant 
returns  to  the  National  Foot- 
ball League  when  the  NFL 
returned  for  a new  season. 

Johnson,  the  former  Dallas 
coach  now  in  charge  at 
Miami,  was  worried  only  that 
his  players  would  become 
“too  ecstatic"  after  the  Dol- 
phins ran  roughshod  over  the 
New  England  Patriots.  And 
the  Baltimore  Ravens,  relo- 
cated from  Cleveland,  were 
too  ecstatically  talking  Super 
Bowl  after  their  18-14  win 
over  the  Oakland  Raiders. 

Johnson  selected  three  run- 
ning backs  among  his  first 
seven  picks  in  the  draft  to 


mend  the  -weakness  in  Mi- 
ami’s offence,  which  had  be- 
come overly  dependent  on 
Dan  Marino.  The  trio  contrib- 
uted handsomely  to  the  24-10 
victory  over  the  Patriots. 

Marino  passed  for  a modest 
176  yards  as  his  rushers  com- 
bined for  146  yards.  “We 
couldn't  stop  the  run  and 
that's  pretty  much  an  under- 
statement," said  the  New 
England  coach  Bill  Parcells. 
“We  got  whupped  very,  very 
soundly." 

Karim  Abdul-Jabbar,  a tall, 
straight-ahead  runner,  was 
Miami’s  leading  rusher  with 
115  yards.  And  the  full-back 
Stanley  Pritchett  added  an- 
other dimension  to  the  attack 
by  leading  pass  receivers 
with  77  yards.  “Our  young 


guys  came  through  big  time.” 
said  Johnson. 

The  normally  confident 
Johnson,  who  has  brought  23 
new  players  to  Miami,  con- 
fessed to  pre-game  jitters.  “I 
got  a little  nervous  last  night 
and  today,"  the  coach  told 
reporters.  "Every  time  I 
turned  on  the  TV  or  picked  up 
the  paper,  somebody  was 
picking  New  England.  I didn't 
see  a bunch  of  people  picking 
Miami  and  that  scared  me,  be- 
cause sometimes  you  guys  are 
right” 

The  Patriots  proved  the  per- 
fect punching  bag  for  John- 
son in  his  first  outing  as  suc- 
cessor to  Don  Shuia.  the 
winner  of  a record  347  NFL 
games.  They  failed  to  make 
any  impression  on  the  ground 


— Curtis  Martin  rushed  for 
only  23  yards  — and  Drew 
Bledsoe  was  let  down  by  his 
fumbling  receivers. 

A frenzied  crowd  of  64,124, 
the  largest  ever  for  a pro  foot- 
ball game  in  Baltimore, 
packed  Memorial  Stadium  to 
watch  the  city's  return  to  the 
NFL  after  a 13-year  absence. 
They  saw  the  one-time 
Browns  gave  up  two  touch- 
downs to  the  Raiders'  Tim 
Brown  to  fall  14-7  behind,  be- 
fore Vinny  Testaverde  led  the 
Ravens'  no-huddle  offence  on 
three  successive  scoring 
drives  in  the  second  half. 

"Tt  probably  doesn't  get 
much  better  than  this,”  said 
their  coach  Ted  Marchlbroda. 
“It's  a shaioe  we  have  to  play 
15  more."  ‘ 


CHORLEY  Chieftains. 

Second  Division  club,  yes- 
terday moved  in  with  Preston 
North  End  soccer  club  in 
what  Chorley  hope  will  be  a 
first  step  towards  a place  in 
the  Super  League. 

The  Chieftains  will  now  be 
known  as  Central  Lancashire, 
but  os  the  only  professional 
club  in  the  county  they  could 
adopt  the  playing  name  of  the 
Lancastrians. 

Deepdale,  with  its  impres- 
sive 8,000-seat  Tom  Finney 
stand,  will  eventually  become 
a 30,000  all-seat  stadium  and 
would  clearly  become  a candi- 
date for  rugby  league  repre- 
sentative games:  Lancashire's 
answer  perhaps  to  Hudders- 
field’S McAlplne  Stadium. 

At  present  Charley's  sup- 
port is  numbered  in  the  low 
hundreds,  but  their  chairman 
Jeff  Mallinson  believes  the 
move  from  Victory  Park, 
where  the  Alliance  and  Acad- 
emy sides  will  continue  to 
play,  will  encourage  more 
support  and  give  the  club 
greater  financial  strength. 
Bryan  Gray,  chairman  of 


Preston,  in  the  Nationwide 
Second  Division,  said:  “The 
clubs  will  be  run  quite  sepa- 
rately with  their  own  man- 
agement structure.  We  will 
both  benefit  from  the  facili- 
ties available  to  us.” 

Chorley,  formed  in  1989, 
lost  their  place  in  the  RFL 
and  were  relegated  to  the 
Conference  League  for  a sea- 
son. They  were  readmitted  to 
the  Second  Division  last  year 
but  were  warned,  along  with 
Prescot,  that  their  progress 
would  be  carefully  monitored. 

This  season  they  struggled 
at  the  start  but  towards  the 
end  achieved  some  excellent 
results  and,  with  six  vic- 
tories, finished  above  Bar- 
row,  Bramley  and  Prescot. 

The  RFL,  meanwhile,  is  to 
hold  an  inquiry  into  the 
Stones  Divisional  Premier- 
ship semi-final  between 
Keighley  and  Hull  at 
Cougar  Park  on  Sunday, 
which  was  marred  by  crowd 
disturbance. 

There  was  one  serious  in- 
jury, and  several  people 
needed  medical  treatment 
after  fencing  collapsed. 
Crowd  trouble  ensued  and 
three  arrests  were  made. 


Tuesday  September  3 1996 


lingis  storms  to  the  quarter-finals,  page  1 3 
Rugby  clubs  propose  British  League,  page  1 5 


Hoddle’s  reasons  to  be  cheerful,  page  14 
Kent  keep  up  the  title  chase,  page  15 


SportsGuaarman 


REVENGE  VICTORY  OVER  TODD  MARTIN  SETS  UP  CLASH  WITH  RETIRING  SWEDE 


Why  Williams 
dropped  the 
£5  million  man 


PETEP  MORGAN 


On  the  rebound Tim  Henman  avenges  his  straight-sets  Wimbledon  defeat  by  Todd  Martin  under  the  Flushing  Meadow  lights 

Henman  tilts  at  a legend 


Stephen  Bierfey  at  Rushing  Meadow 
on  a British  examination  by  Stefan  Edberg 


E HAS  practised 
with  him,  learned 
from  him  and  been 
inspired  by  him. 
I Today  Tim  Hen- 
man must  put  the  living  ten- 
nis legend  of  Sweden's  Lon- 
don-based Stefan  Edberg 
behind  him,  play  the  ball  not 
the  man.  and  fight  string  and 
graphite  for  a place  in  the 
quarter-finals  of  the  US  Open. 

As  Henman  put  it;  "The  last 
thing  you  need  to  do  is  look  at 
the  other  end  and  think,  Tm 
playing  one  of  the  greats.’  Til 
just  be  concentrating  on  my 
own  game  and  hopefully  1 can 
play  as  well  as  1 did  on 
Sunday." 

His  victory  over  Todd  Mar- 
tin that  night  also  took  him 
closer  to  becoming  the  first 
Briton  to  qualify  for  the 
$6  million  Compaq  Grand 
Slam  Cup  in  December. 


which  will  bring  him  £300.000 
in  appearance  money  alone. 

Flushing  Meadow  is  a 
special  place,  notably  during 
the  night  sessions  when  the 
two  huge  scoreboards  on  the 
vertiginous  main  stadium 
shine  every  bit  as  brightly  as 
Broadway’s  neon.  The  arena 
is  a frothing,  heaving  vat  of 
reeking  humanity;  it  appears 
impossible  for  spectators  to 
sit  still  here  for  more  than  a 
minute.  T-shirts  are  bought  at 
whim,  pizzas  consumed  irre- 
spective of  the  state  of  play, 
and  in  the  middle  of  Hen- 
man's third  set  against  Mar- 
tin thousands  simply  upped 
sticks  and  left;  they  are  not 
interested  in  losers. 

Martin,  ranked  13th  in  the 
world,  had  ended  Henman's 
hopes  of  a Wimbledon  semi- 
final this  summer  as  cleanly  as 
a pioneer’s  axe.  beating  him  in 


straight  sets.  This  time  the 
reversal  was  doubly  sweet  in 
Martin's  own  backyard.  Hen- 
man winning  6-2. 7-6. 6-4. 

After  the  British  No  1 
walked  off  court  John  McEn- 
roe, who  is  proving  a splen- 
didly trenchant  and  amusing 
commentator  for  USA  Net- 
work. rushed  down  to  con- 
gratulate him  with  genuine 
warmth.  “The  British  should 
be  pretty  pumped  up.  This 
guy  has  great  potential." 

David  Felgate.  Henman's 
coach,  rated  the  win  even 
higher  than  the  first-round 
Wimbledon  victory  over  Rus- 
sia's Yevgeny  Kafelnikov,  the 
French  Open  champion.  "For 
the  first  set  and  a half  it  was 
the  best  tennis  I’ve  ever  seen 
Tim  play." 

Martin,  it  must  be  said,  was 
hampered  by  a heavily 
strapped  elbow  which  cut  his 
serving  power  considerably. 
Yet  it  was  typical  of  his  gener- 
ous spirit  that  the  6ft  6in  Flor- 
ida-based player  from  Hins- 
dale, Illinois  refused  to  make 


excuses.  "I  played  the  cards 
that  were  dealt  1 had  my 
chances."  These  came  at  5-4  in 
the  second  set  Martin  had  a 
couple  of  set  points  but  Hen- 
man, previously  struggling  to 
keep  his  concentration, 
slammed  the  door  shut  to  be- 
come the  first  British  player  to 
reach  the  fourth  round  here 
since  John  Lloyd  in  1984.  Lloyd 
eventually  lost  to  Jimmy  Con- 
nors in  the  quarter-finals. 

Both  Henman  and  Felgate 
recognise  the  danger  of  the  21- 
year-old  Briton's  occasional 
iapses  of  concentration. 
“When  I do  play  my  best  ten- 
nis I'm  a good  player,"  said 
Henman.  “It's  the  other  times 
that  rii  let  back  the  very  top 
players.  We  know  it's  a prob- 
lem; now  we  have  to  deal  with 
it." 

Edberg.  30.  playing  bis  last 
Grand  Slam  tournament  be- 
fore retirement  reached  the 
fourth  round  with  a comfort- 
able 6-4. 7-6. 6-1  win  over  Paul 
Haarhuis  of  the  Netherlands. 

"Tim  is  going  to  go  out 


Hump 

bridge. 


MORSE 


there  very  much  the  under- 
dog." said  Martin  "Don't  let 
30  years  old  and  the  sayonara 
tour  fool  you.  Stefan  is  play- 
ing as  well  as  I've  ever  seen 
him  play  in  a few  years,  and  I 
think  he  will  come  a little  bit 
better  equipped  than  I was." 

The  match  is  given  extra 
spice  because  Britain’s  Tony 
Pickard,  reunited  with  Ed- 
berg this  year,  tried  desper- 
ately to  persuade  Henman  to 
take  him  on  as  coach  when  he 
initially  split  up  with  the 
Swede.  Henman  stuck  by  Fel- 
gate, who  is  also  the  LTA’s 
manager  of  men’s  tennis,  and 
Pickard  has  not  been  slow  to 
voice  his  criticism. 

Undoubtedly  Edberg.  cham- 
pion here  in  1991  and  1992. 
and  twice  winner  of  the  Aus- 
tralian Open  and  Wimbledon, 
will  be  thoroughly  fired  up, 
though  in  the  case  of  the  la- 
conic Swede  this  might  ap- 
pear a contradiction  in  terms. 

Henman  hardly  wears  his 
emotions  on  his  sleeve  either; 
the  public  show  of  emotion 
late  on  Sunday  night  was  a 
smile  and  a single  gesture  of 
pointed  triumph  towards 
Felgate. 


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“The  high 
fliers  at 
seven  tend 
to  continue, 
while  those 
who  are 
plodding 
along  tend 
to  get 
further 
and  further 
behind,  and 
very  few 
catch  up.” 
Dr  Greg 
Brooks 


One  for  you . . . Henman 
salutes  his  coach  in  victory 


Richard  Williams 


SO  YOU  want  to  know 
why  Damon  Hill  isn't 
good  enough  for 
Frank  Williams.  Or,  to 
put  it  another  way,  why  a man 
worth  £5  million  a year  ago  is 
apparently  worth  nothing 
now,  despite  winning  more 
than  half  the  Formula  One 
races  held  this  season. 

What  on  earth  could  per- 
suade Williams  to  reject  the 
services  of  a driver  who  may 
well  wrap  up  the  world  cham- 
pionship in  Italy  on  Sunday 
afternoon?  A man  who  has 
worked  happily  with  the  team 
for  six  years? 

The  answer  is  short  and 
brutal,  and  you  could  see  it 
with  embarrassing  clarity 
halfway  through  the  telecast 
of  the  Belgian  Grand  Prix 
nine  days  ago. 

HilL  his  nerves  jangling  as 
the  race  for  the  championship 
neared  its  climax,  had  already 
messed  up  the  job  of  getting 
pole  position,  foiled  when  the 
rain  came  during  the  qualify- 
ing session,  ceding  the  initia- 
tive to  his  team-mate  Jacques 
Villeneuve. 

Bad  luck.  Bad  timing.  But  a 
truly  great  champion  suffers 
from  neither.  The  likes  of 
Fangio  and  Senna  had  a poker 
player's  sixth  sense  telling 
them  when  to  draw  and  when 
to  hold.  In  this  generation. 
Schumacher  has  it  By  those 
standards  Hill  is  mortal,  like 
the  rest  of  us. 

Then  he  made  an  indiffer- 
ent start  to  the  race.  He  has 
been  doing  that  all  season, 
leading  to  the  extraordinary 
sight  of  a potential  world 
champion  being  treated  like  a 
learner  driver.  Try  to  imagine 
Schumacher  allowing  himself 
to  be  dragged  into  public  ex- 
planations of  his  difficulty  in 
coordinating  the  movements 
of  the  throttle  and  clutch 
pedals. 

And  then,  for  one  reason  or 
another.  Hill's  pit-stop  routine 
went  wrong,  making  him  look 
foolish  as  be  dodged  in  and  out 
of  the  slip-road  barriers  like 
an  advert  for  the  Cones 
Hotline. 

Even  when  he  found  him- 
self back  in  13th  place  after 
that  little  misadventure,  he 
had  the  opportunity  to  show 
what  he  can  do  in  hot  blood. 
Fangio.  Moss.  Clark,  Senna 
and  even  Prost  occasion- 
ally used  such  episodes  of  mis- 


fortune as  excuses  to  demon- 
strate their  virtuosity,  thrill- 
ing the  crowd  by  slicing 
through  the  field 
Maybe  Hill  was  just  unfortu- 
nate that  a camera  was  focused 
on  him  as  he  came  up  behind 
Martin  Brundle's  filth-placed 
Jordan  on  lap  21  and  tried  to 
overtake  into  Les  Combes,  a 
right-hander  which  offers  the 
Spa  circuit's  best  passing  op- 
portunity. At  this  point  Hill’s 
Williams,  the  best  car  in  the 
field,  was  three  seconds  a lap 
faster  than  Brundle’s  Jordan,  a 
margin  teat  should  have  made 
overtaking  easy. 

But  the  world  could  see 
what  happened  when  Hill 
drew  alongside,  taking  the  in- 
side line  as  they  approached 
tbe  comer.  Suddenly  be 
seemed  to  think  better  of  it 
braking  early  and  dropping 
back,  letting  Brundle  take  his 
usual  line  through  the  comer. 
Schumacher  — and  Ville- 
neuve. Hakkinen.  Alesi  and 
probably  quite  a few  others — 
would  have  outbraked  the 
Jordan,  leaving  Brundle  to 
worry  about  the  conse- 
quences. There  Is  no  time  for 
second  thoughts  in  the  busi- 
ness of  driving  a racing  car. 

It  took  Hill  five  more  laps  to 
get  back  up  to  Brundle,  ready 
for  another  go  at  the  same  cor- 
ner. This  time  he  brought  it 
off,  but  as  he  went  past  a 
strange  thing  happened.  He 
made  the  Williams  lunge 
across  the  track  towards  the 
Jordan,  as  if  un confident  of 
his  ability  to  bring  off  the 
manoeuvre  without  a hint  of 
intimidation — or  as  if.  altar 
his  failure  five  laps  earlier,  he 
felt  he  needed  to  make  a public 
show  of  aggression. 

A WHOLE  theory  can 

plausibly  be  erected  on 
the  basis  of  a single 
incident  such  as  this, 
but  there  have  been  several 
other  examples  of  Hill's  flawed 
decision-making  in  the  heat  of 
battle,  and  Williams  has 
clearly  seen  enough  of  them  to 
reach  the  logical  conclusion 
that,  though  he  may  be  a first- 
class  test  driver,  he  lacks  a 
racer’s  edge  and  at  36  is  un- 
likely to  develop  one  now. 

Hill’s  financial  demands  are 
beside  the  point  They  are  not 
in  any  case,  excessive.  No, 
Williams  knows  that  next  sea- 
son, facing  Schumacher  and 
Ferrari,  his  team  will  need 
every  ounce  of  competitive  ad- 
vantage. and  one  way  is  to 
raise  the  level  of  internal  com- 
petition by  confronting  Ville- 
neuve with  a new  threat  from 
inside  the  team. 

If  I were  HilL  I would  draw  a 
line  under  the  past  four  years. 
And  if  I were  Villeneuve,  I 
would  watch  Frank  Williams 
more  closely  from  now  on. 


Jordan  step  In,  page  1 5 


Guardian  Crossword  No  20,748 

Set  by  Quantum 


Across 


1 War-time  recollection?  (4-2) 

5 Day  rime's  foggy?  Clear 
windscreen  (6) 

8 Forces  English  soccer  to 
undergo  change  (7) 

9 Swell  acting  seen  in  the 
theatre  {7) 

11  UsBd  Information 
technology  to  the  best 
advantage?  (4,3,4,221 

12  Custom  said  to  be  OK  (4) 

13  l'm  leading  railtrip  to  Norfolk 
town,  ft's  different  (1 Q) 

17  I provide  a turn  but  may  dry 
up  in  summer  season  (10) 

IB  Upper  Circle  (4) 

20  The  average  supporters 
tend  to  flag  (8,7) 

23  Cast  end  in  disharmony  with 
what  should  harmonise  (7) 

24  Spirt  allowance?  (7) 


25  It’s  miserable  having  spots 
(G) 

2fi  Detectives  in  river  case 
pass  judgement  (6) 

Down 


2 Enact  old  bit  of  action  in 
play  consisting  of  short 
accounts  (9) 

3 Firm  set  up  in  dead  place  (6) 

4 Beck  seat  (9) 

5 Club  with  records  inside 
showed  i scored  (5) 

6 Spoil  one  spell  by  the  sea? 
(8) 

7 Lady  with  a file— Initially  a 
collection  of  papers  (5) 

8 Made  concessions  having 
order  within  Involved  (1 1) 

10  No  politician  holding 
promises  of  money  left 
disreputably  (11) 

14  Leading  committee  on  the 
right  (9) 


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16  Secondhand  vehicles  need- 
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19  Itis  crazy  for  person  to  come 

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